Emberflame Ridge no storms but all the friction

Grezig grunted, having nothing much to say. She never had anything to respond with when people said it was nice to meet her. They didn’t even know her. And, what was this? Her name was… interesting? She’d never heard anyone say that before and wasn’t sure how to react to it. Was that supposed to be an insult, or was her name genuinely interesting? Well. It didn’t matter because he was already moving on from that.

’What brings you to this lonely copse?’ Embry asked.

Grezig opened her mouth to reply, but was immediately interrupted.

’What the hell do y'think happened here?’

Her mouth closed. She looked around at the area they were in, really taking in her surroundings for the first time. Dotted here and there were trees that looked as if they, alone, had caught fire, like the world’s smallest wildfire. Except there were multiple trees like that. Furrowing her brows, she turned her head, swiveling here and there as she took in one, two, three, four… she lost count of them all. She tried to think about this logically.

“Let me see,” she mused aloud, and then sat down to ruminate. “These burnt trees could not have been caused by a wildfire, or there would be a huge swath of the area that was completely burnt to the ground. But here, only individual trees are destroyed. What causes fire, but only in isolated…” She stopped, as an image came to her mind, of being a pup hiding out in a cave to stay away from a thunderstorm. A bright flash had come down from the sky and destroyed a tree some distance away. “Lightning strikes?” That would make the most sense, but... "But why are there so many?"