Neverwinter Forest kill the messenger

vaguey-vague for reasons; no pressure to reply, only if you want/have time metic! <3

there was a shift. in the air, perhaps, as spring overtakes winter and chases the chill that has lingered in the past week or so since his arrival away ... or perhaps the shift is in arktos himself. or, perhaps it is both. two truths at once.

while his memories are still gone, as if they never existed in the first place, making him a man with no past but endless futures. and arktos, not knowing anything to miss anything or to regret, welcomes this.

come @Nephele, he beckons to his wife, forging the path towards the heart of the neverwinter forest. arktos simply assumes she will follow. he chooses the seclusion of the pines for several reasons, privacy at its forefront.

are you truly happy in morningsong? he asks, still under the assumption that she has answered his beckon and followed him. it is only when his steps pause and he turns to peer back at the path he'd walked that he checks.