
No, she thought tonight's party would be somewhere else. Perhaps somewhere not surrounded by trees; she liked them but they were, she'd discovered, really very flammable. Somewhere near water, too - they didn't want to repeat their mistakes.
Oh, but she didn't doubt that they'd return here soon enough. They were all kin, and, Party thought, all kin were creatures of habit.
But it was really so much work. She was sure that the wind would clear the ashes away on their own, in time.