How to get banished.

Edna

It had been four days since Darrell returned and I had only seen him twice.

The first time he'd saved me from his mother's torturous beatings and the second was when I had gone to welcome him with home made pie.

Neither of those encounters were encouraging. Darrel had not only changed physically, he'd changed emotionally towards me.

Or maybe I was just imagining things.

He'd been the one to stop his mother from beating me up twice after all and he'd been awfully busy, receiving visitors and trying to get the pack in order.

Maybe he was just tired, maybe I had seeked him...