The Bracken Woods blood-freezing

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He takes her up on the offer and she easily shifts her weight, head square above her shoulders and ears erect, cupping forward, and a tail’s arch just a little tighter over the spine. Thuringwethil even offers a little shake of the plume before she turns her head, encouraging him to follow along beside her. They had nearly half a days worth of travel and there would be plenty of time to—oh, joy—talk along the way. The important things would be covered and she hopes Dio acclimates well to the others.

“You will meet the other leader, Gyda—she’s a long time companion of mine,” she muses once they’ve started their trek back. She goes the way she’d come, leading him back home. “We have a healer that can look you over when we get there, if you’d like.” He doesn’t appear to be too battle weary or emaciated but he’d been on his own a while and thin, probably hungry; perhaps they’d find a snack on the way home.