Kintla Flatlands This woman is my destiny

Phantom Hollow. @Luke

A few days had passed since Junior visited the Plateau, and Saena was still mulling over her sister's idea. It was so easy to imagine starting over fresh, putting all her bad memories and the plateau's poor discipline behind her, and leading the way she wanted to lead... but imagining was one thing. She couldn't help feeling like no one would want to follow her, and that was, perhaps, more depressing than the state of her home at present.

Feeling pressured and unsure, the female left the plateau in the early morning. She was alert as she padded through the frost-covered grass with her stumpy tail at half-mast and her ears alternately turned forward and back. Though there was no news of cannibals recently, Saena wasn't convinced they were gone. The last thing she needed was yet another injury at their teeth.

Before long, she found herself in a dark, gloomy locale. It was almost as though the sunlight, which was bright moments earlier, was duller here. Quirking a brow at the sky, Saena stared for a moment, then snorted, shook her head, wrote it off as an effect of the mountain's shadow, and proceeded deeper into the hollow.