Ocean's Breath Plateau that ache in your shoulders

@Laroche, set for the night of 14th

he kept coming back here, in the hopes that he'd find her. when would he accept that izel had gone away?

she had healed him; she owed him nothing more (she hadn't even owed him that). had he pried too deep into her past, perhaps? or maybe there was something else, something that itched at her paws and urged her to leave. whatever it was, she was gone. her scent had faded, her tracks disappeared.

so why was he here?

govinda wandered along the edge of the plateau, paces from the cliff that overlooked the burned forest, and the lush wood to the south. watching and waiting, thinking that she would appear at any minute, though he knew deep down that the sentiment was folly. no, she was gone, and he was chasing a ghost.

just like so many others in his life, she had emerged to play merely a small role, and then took her bow and departed. the problem was that govinda couldn't bear to see the supporting cast go, even when their lines had been given and their stories had ended.