Ravensblood Forest deserve's got nothing to do with it

for @Wraen

set before this in personal timeline

From the outside, the forest had seemed like any other.  Sure, the trees were bigger and taller here, but a forest is a forest is a forest and Thorin had seen numerous forests in his life.  Besides, he was curious about these tall red trees.  It was cozy within, the heavy canopy shielded the littered floor from much of the recent dusting of snow, but it was dark, too.  He figured it was from the mountains on either side, but it was a little off-putting.

Even more off-putting was when he got close to one of the trees to see frozen red — was that sap? — hardened across the side.  It was so red that it looked like blood.  The fur upon his withers rose and his nose wrinkled.  Nope, this had been a mistake, and he needed to get out of here pronto.