Butler U. was the same for me. [true enough. The road to university had been anything but traditional for her, but it really had been where life had started over.

She gave him a light smile over her coffee cup] I guess I find it better to focus on what lies ahead. There's a whole world out there, with more in it than anyone could really imagine.

[she laughed, her wings giving a soft flutter in acknowledgment] Obviously.

It'd be a shame to miss out on it while looking back. [and there was her lie. A lie of omission, anyway. She did worry about the people she'd left behind. Quite a bit. But the sentiment itself was true. If she could, she would go back to them...but more than that, she'd like to bring them along on whatever road lay ahead]