The Sentinels from the other side

the young babe was told of all who were permitted into the forests ranks. her father knew of her trepidation of strangers, but there was a strange line she was beginning to draw within her minds eye. donnelaith was family, was it not? and the owl had told her that this place protected its witches, and the witches in turn would protect them when they one day could. there was another new woman among them, and deirdre made her way toward the unique scent, quiet and wary and slow all at once. she pretty, gangly youth looked between the wood to catch sight of the very soul she sought, and for a moment she remained hidden before she revealed herself, blinking at the other and tilting her head. they had been whispering something, and she had not caught the word.