Sawtooth Spire drown me in your temptation

She was smart, but impulsive. This was her fatal flaw. And though she had let @Mou know she would be gone for a little while, lest she disappear without warning again, it was still a fool's errand to travel toward the mountains, alone, headed into the danger she had once faced, long ago.

She had escaped these crags with her life, but her body and soul forever were marred. And now she ran into the fire again?

He had to die.

This was not the peak she remembered, though. It vaguely resembled her captors' territory, but it was not an exact match. Maegi climbed and climbed, eyes narrowed and staring across the range as she wondered just which one it could be. She was contemplating her next move when a figure approached, big and gray. From a distance, he resembled--

Skullchaser--

--and her heart stopped, her fur bristling. Lips pulled upward to reveal gleaming teeth as she snarled, without volition, staring down the man (?) who'd (?) hurt her.