"Oh, oh, oh!" Sophie bounced up and down, her hair curling in and out excitedly. "We're lookin' for the Witherlord, he's a big bad guy and Xino was tryin' to kill him, but he almost got killed instead so I had to come and save him, isn't that crazy!! It was really close, we almost lost, haha. But Withy ain't dead yet and we gotta finish 'im off!" She punctuated this remark by punching a fist into her palm, beaming innocently. "And then we can find Star! OH!" She gasped suddenly. "Did you even know that your aunt is alive? And all that horrible stuff that happened with her husband..." Sophie's hair deflated and her eyes seemed to get even bigger, like a sad character in a cartoon. She hadn't even been alive for Marsh's passing, but she knew her family history quite well and this part of the story always made her heart ache.
Granite, for one, perked up. Father, he thought, eager for answers. Then, however, he faltered. He would much rather hear the story from his mother than from her strangely perky blue sister.