Ankyra Sound Half a league, half a league

i read somewhere that a certain someone wanted to be the one to find a linn-daughter @Suzu - no obligation to join, AW otherwise <3

The closer Stelmaria came to the sound, the more she began to recognize the titanic wall of trees looming in the distance. That unequivocally haunting silhouette of the sequoia wood sheltering this stretch of the coast had been seared into her brain; taken from a polaroid snapped on the day she and her sister had parted ways with their father.

“Those woods there,” he had said. She remembered his voice, the way he had gestured, the long hour they spent watching the sun rise over the sound. She remembered their last embrace. She remembered looking for him over her shoulder as they walked away and feeling his eyes watching after them even after they had gone from sight.

She had never been inside the territory, however, and the experience of venturing into it for the first time was wholly her own.

Stelmaria peered about her surroundings, walking slowly along the worn deer-paths as she took in the monolithic godtrees with a subdued awe.