Morningside Cuesta and i'll love you forever if i ever love at all

After his run-in with Adrastos, an itch he hadn't felt since leaving Easthollow began to radiate through Grayday's body. They had to mark the borders, so that something like this wouldn't happen again. They had to. But he knew that, once he put his mark down on this land, he would not be able to return to Easthollow. He'd been growing apart from it for these weeks they'd been gone, and this - it would be the final nail in the coffin.

Before he told anyone, he'd tell Adeline. He sought her out with this intent, but when he saw her lying in the grass, bathed in sunlight and something like peace, he decided the conversation could wait for another time.

"You look happy," he said as he approached, settling himself nearby, but not on top of her patch of soft grass.