Cedar Sweep I dropped the berry in a stream

is it cool if this is forward dated a bit? also i think i read it right that she's close to the borders but not there?

The ritual still haunted Ragna. She had been forewarned that the babes Eshamun carried would not live, but seeing and knowing were two different things. Unwarned, the shock of it would have driven her away from the Malkaria. Knowing the justification lessened the shock, but only just. Troubled, she left the copse. Not for good, but until she could clear her mind and conscience. Only one thing was certain: Ragna would not leave the Malkaria. In her wandering she heard of far more gruesome practices. In comparison, what she had witnessed was almost kind. And the women of the Malkaria took no joy in it.

These thoughts soothed Ragna's troubled mind, and soon they would silence the voice that spoke only of the ritual's inherent wrongness. The thin trees of the copse began to fill out into the cedars of Cedar Sweep. Ragna passed the borders and the cedars took over entirely, and that was when she noticed the woman. They moved in opposite directions, Ragna away, the woman towards the Copse.

When it became clear that the stranger was staying her course, Ragna spoke. You draw near to the borders of the Malkaria, she called out.