“I don’t want to really be ungrown at all, but I don’t want them to miss me and…” Pod bites her lip. “I don’t think anyone would believe me if I told the truth?”

If Pod wasn’t living it, she doesn’t think she’d believe it, that’s for sure. And maybe she wouldn’t care, but going mad, or the appearance of it, might get her removed from being a Beast Healer. She couldn’t stand that.