[If she knew that her reply had been disheartening, she'd feel even worse than she does. However, his question proves an ample distraction and she sits properly, tail curling over her feet as her wings partially can and retold along her back. If you were to tell her that she was mated to Skan and had kits by him in your timeline, she wouldn't know what to make of it; she couldn't make anything out of a crush when it would clearly just be blowing things way out of proportion. Skandranon, the Black Gryphon and she?!

She takes the question at face value, however, and thinks to the precise moment everything went upside down.]

I was practicing my obstacle course... I was partially through when everything seemed to tilt...