Karin blushed, the bright stain of embarrassment flooding her cheeks at the mention of that long and deliberately forgotten memory. Her walk of shame had faded only with difficulty, pushed into oblivion by slow and careful degrees, recalled only in rare moments of perfect solitude and silence. Hers was a lonely road, she had long ago determined; she would not allow herself the luxury of self pitying nostalgia. She tried to focus on her sister's questions, fabricating an answer that would hopefully satisfy her curiosity.
"I don't know," she said. It was frustrating: Her breath failed her, the words passing her lips on a weak gust of air. "Something happened that day, like today. It's just..." She raked a hand through her hair, tangled locks catching on her thin fingers. "Strange. I feel like I know this place, but I know I shouldn't. That I don't. But that island. Fee..." She looked back to her sister, doing her best to hide the earnest concern lurking there. "There's something there, and I need to find out. Shae wouldn't go with me or I'd have found out then. But I feel like it's important, and I can't let it go."
She laughed, letting her hands fall easily to her sides once more, forcing some semblance of normalcy to her posture. "Nevermind," she said. "Don't worry about me. I just woke up weird, is all. It's probably just residual dreams or something."