Blackfeather Woods so you run and you run to catch up with the sun

It was deep within the tunnels that he wove his path, migrating from one part of the woods to another, and then on towards even another yet. It was easier to move down within the Web, where he was hidden from view and the aches that plagued him hidden, too, in turn; the gradual shift in the weather was wearing on him, bothering his bones in a way he never would have expected in his youth. But that was the way in which an aging body worked—this he knew, and this he’d come to accept.

Eventually, Kove reemerged from the underground and ventured through the forest itself, looking but not searching. It was shortly after that, that he spotted Maegi, at whom he offered a nod of acknowledgment before starting to slow his pace. He had not spoken to her since her return, the event still playing through his head like a dream; it was hard to believe that she was home now. Thus he offered her the chance to speak, should she have any interest in doing so.