Deepwood Weald a whispered portent

entices a hydra in

"Can anyone". Pause.  "Anywhere." Long pause. "Please tell me."  ....... "where the heck moon mountain is?!"  

Fully aware that no one was even in the vacinity to hear her loud exclamations (that she knew of), Maia felt the need to make her frustrations known to the world regardless.  If she'd have known how hard everything was going to be to find once you left everything you knew behind (lol), she probably wouldn't have come here.  Would she have?

She thought a minute.  Nah, she probably still woulda come.  Sarah and mom and da were great, and the new kids on the way were exciting, but she needed some space for a bit too.  How boring would it be to grow up and live and eventually die in the same pack all your life?

Pretty dang boring.

"Hallooo", she called, a yell that eventually turned into a howl in the silence of the forest.  No real reason behind it.  She just felt like howling.