The Sentinels good morning, worm, your honor

takes place after this thread, which was forward-dated, so this one is also forward-dated a bit. @Iliksis

Seeing Vaati again had shaken her greatly. So much so that, when they had parted from each other, she did not return to Wheeling Gull Isle right away. No, there was too much to digest, and too many people on the island worried about her to do so in peace. So she wandered along the coast instead, not stopping until she came to a sorry excuse for a forest, charred and abandoned.

Maegi wandered through the blackened stumps, the wreckage taking her mind, if only for a while, off her thoughts. What had happened? Had wolves lived here, before? There was greenery here and there, but it was scarce compared to the barrenness of the lot of it. It was strange, and sad, and she felt a sort of kinship with it, especially now.

Vaati! He was alive--but clearly changed. They would not live together under the boughs of Blackfeather again. She had grown out of her early childhood many moons ago, but it was, perhaps, this last encounter that had shut the door on it completely. Nothing was as it once had been. Her repose with Undersea had managed to distract from that fact, but with the reappearance of her older brother, it was clear. Painfully, starkly clear.

The girl sat with a huff, disturbing the ash that coated the forest floor. Her mismatched eyes wandered, taking in every bit of damage. No one would disturb her here. No one wanted to come to this place.