Barrow Fields he burns me with his eyes of gold, to embers

When she departed Moonspear having finally found it, Maia was at a bit of a loss.  No one seemed to be able to tell her exactly where her family had run off to (I'm assuming since no one knows lolol).  Her frustration with it was mounting, and she was suddenly angry at them, in a very sibling like and unreasonable fashion, for not just staying put in one of the places dad and mom had clearly said they might be.  What gives!?

So she cut back west, unknowingly in the complete opposite direction from her objective, and ended up back on the coast.  She figured she could just as well figure out what she wanted to do next here, and when the rain started, she very dramatically continued to walk, letting it slowly drench her.  Honestly, #mood for her, so it suited her aesthetic.  Cool.  Let it happen.

She was soggy, hungry, and couldn't seem to find her siblings anywhere.  Maybe she should just go home?  Dad had made it pretty clear she could, and she knew mom wouldn't mind, especially with new pups coming to take care of.  But in making it pretty clear she could, Dante had also made it fairly clear he expected her to, and that kept her hesitant.  She didn't want them to know she'd failed out here, didn't want to go crawling back to her parents of all things! Not when Wraen and Terance hadn't!!

The first snowflake landed on her nose with an unpleasantly cold sensation, and a shudder jerked through her.  Nope, that wasn't happening.  So she barreled forward at a clip, ready to dive into the first spot for shelter she saw.... a cave a ways away, one that was unknowingly already occupied.