King Elk Forest Ungrateful

Feel free to presume that @Stormy Boy is with her; I have permission to PP him a little.

They left the plateau with some haste; she knew she could not keep Phox and his family safe any longer, not when the Company had sent someone in pursuit of her — they would send wolf after wolf, and eventually something bad would happen, something she would never forgive of herself.

So, in an effort to keep her sweet-natured husband safe, she'd gone with the swarthy man with the booming voice. Camilla had no idea where they were headed, or where they were when her pleas for a rest finally earned a brief reprieve from their retreat. Camilla knew not to push her luck with this man — he was healthy, strong, and sure of himself in a way that might've appealed to some women but truthfully, frightened her. She went back to what she knew: treading carefully, doing anything he asked, assuming her role as the dutiful woman.

They eventually stopped in the middle of a dense forest. There wasn't going to be enough time for Camilla to plot an escape, or to leave any clues. But she planted herself in among the ferns and tried to catch her breath at the very least. Wherever they were going, it was like she was going backwards in time, to a moment of absolute horror.