Falls of the Hinterlands But something rustled on the floor

For Saga. Feel free to set this whenever in your timeline, since I'm twisting Saena's anyway to make these travel threads happen all at once!

With a snort, Saena heaved herself over a ledge and proceeded to scramble higher up the mountainside.

What's with wolves nowadays? she wondered to herself as she scaled the heights. First Reek had taken it upon himself to kidnap her children as if he had any right to them, and now there was word of at least one more kidnapping. Just when did it become so cool to take helpless children from their parents? Saena's could be half grown by now for all she knew, but she imagined them alone and scared and ignored by the father who broke their family before they could even draw their first breath, and she knew she could stop at nothing to get to them. Not whilst knowing that other mothers were similarly searching for their young.

The forest growing up the mountain slope was scenic, full of beautiful black stone and tall thin trees, but Saena's focus was only on her destination. She didn't stop to smell the roses, as it were. A squirrel crossed paths with her without her even noticing it despite feeling a little peckish. When she did stop, it was at the edge of a pool into which a spectacularly tall waterfall crashed, where she stooped and drank deeply. The roar of colliding water drowned out her thoughts completely, and for a moment after she'd had her fill, she stood there staring blankly at the falls, as if trying to see in the mist the best way to reach Larksong Grotto without being found out along the way.