King Elk Forest sweet adeline

open to anyone! but hopin for a chronicler thread, mb @Trajan or @Eucalyptus? set after his thread w/bri, keeping it a little vague

the story is coming together. deftly he weaves it around the strands of fate that tie the silvery prince and his group together. there is: mato's fateful meeting with rannoch, his time at the vale with brienne; there is: burke, his lineage of packs - arthendal, which delight still wishes to visit, the fen where the crown prince was born, the wicked caldera who've easily become minor antagonists in delight's version of the tale; there is: brienne herself, seabreeze, who's kindness and grace stop him from giving in to his basest jealousy. it is easy enough to detach himself. it is easy enough for him to move on if he is not present - if he is busy weaving himself into the story instead of thinking about things. and where does he himself fit in the story? does it matter if he is an outsider? (yes, he thinks: because he wants to know about the others like him, who didn't know mato before he approached them) well: he was nothing and had nothing, and the prince appeared and gave him something. that's good enough for now, he hopes.