Chapter 5: The Queen
Tsume helped me bury them," she looked at the earth phoenix gratefully. "it's time that i move on... there's nothing for me with them anymore." "where do you hope to go?" vinge asked further.
Os-Nadarra Prime Volume 2: Red Winter
The young earth phoenix watched him with mild astonishment as he took her hand, leaning forward slowly and pecking the top of it, before lowering it back to her side.