Sunbeam Lair ༺ No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again ༻

I wish I could just tag @Ryūjin... But anyway! @Asterr and/or @Ukko would be amazing, but anyone is welcome!

ཁྱེད་རང་ང་དང་མཉམ་དུ་ཞབས་བྲོ་འཁྲབ་ན་འགྲིག་གི་རེད་པས།

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Days of travel had her pawpads sore, but pain was optional, she knew - if only she could control pain like father. Something up there in the temple had been stopping her, blocking her way to become enlightened, so father had sent her on her way away, not somewhere specific, but out there where he said Nir would find what she was looking for. "the wind will guide you" he'd said, his last words of encouragement before Nirvana picked a path down south, into the lands of evergreen.

But green was nowhere to be seen. In it's stead, the red season had taken over the vegetation to the point where only the healthiest trees held their leaves. It was silent down here too, against what Nirvana had been expecting, but it was beautiful regardless, and there were plenty of life signals in every corner. She had come across marked borders and loners numerous times, but the wind had pulled her elsewhere every time and Nirvana put no resistance. Father was wise, and if he'd said that the wind would take her where she needed to be, she would follow it's flow diligently.

This had taken her further south than she had wanted to go. Somewhere deep within her heart still existed a fear that she would never see her family again, but she couldn't tell her father, for he considered any form of attachment a burden that made enlightenment impossible. However, she knew how to ward it off, and every time she felt it coming back around she simply sat down on the spot, closed her eyes and cleared her mind. Meditation.

Omm...

She chanted, focused on her chakras in an attempt to fight off the dark thoughts, but this time she'd failed to notice the scent of wolves in the place she'd picked to connect with her inner self, and she was exposed as she sat on a rock, repeating her mantra. She was barely outside claimed land up a mountain, but to be fair, it's hard to see with closed eyes.

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