Sun Mote Copse i told the devil to take you back

Forward dated a few days!

It takes a few more days but eventually, Mallaidh finds herself on the borders of Teaghlaigh. If she does not tell her parents about the wolves on the outside of the strath, they have no way of knowing the danger. Telling them, however, will only put her into more trouble than she already feels looming over her head. They likely know her by scent, even if their actions did not necessarily indicate they were coming this way. She never understood anything they said above her, whether it was another language like her mother speaks or she’d been in shock, she doesn’t know, but there’s a part of her that knows she has to find out. She needs to know if she put her family in danger, if they have Roarke, if they…
 
Mallaidh inhales a slow breath and holds it and she begins to follow the familiar path she’d taken several days ago. Every step is careful, calculated. There isn’t a leaf she hasn’t noticed out of place. If anyone is around, she’ll know (or so she thinks), and she passes by the river that she crossed to get to the cedar forest. A few landmarks show to be familiar but she does not necessarily remember them and she never quite finds the spot where she’d been pinned down by the monster wolf. It is only when she emerges into a clearing that she realizes she’s gone farther than she meant to and she steels a tremble that grips hold of her spine.
 
The danger that lurks outside of Teaghlaigh has graduated from scary monsters with six eyes and teeth the size of her limbs to something that resembles her. That resembles her family and every other wolf she’s ever known. The face of a monster is nothing more than another wolf and she doesn’t know how to handle that information. She’d been foolish before, naïve and young and now… she just feels older. Fear sits deep in her chest but she cannot let it rule her life.
 
Still, she has not found the wolves that had tried to take her and instead is much farther than she anticipated. The forest is sparse and bright, causing her to blink several times and an unpleasant feeling her nose causes her to sneeze several times in a row. Mallaidh wrinkles her nose and takes another steady breath to hold the reaction at bay. The glowing particles grab her attention and she remembers the stars she and Ceallach found the night of the meteor shower but they are not as big and the sky is much brighter than she’s ever seen before. Her nose flares to capture what’s in her surroundings to better try and keep aware of what or who may be nearby.