The Tangle she told him to take care of me

@Tux

There were many things about her new life that Raleska liked: the ocean, even though it tasted funny. The gulls were cool too, acting like they were the real owners of the place - and how they yelled at you, or swooped by you if you gave chase.. even the way the beach seemed to move its massive waters back and forth (how DID it do that?!)  at different periods of the day.. all of this, despite being the place she was born in, was being rediscovered day by day. 

Except there was one thing Raleska didn’t like, and it wasn’t even the neighbors. It was the absolutely immense sequoias that loomed judgmentally over the sound, some of them with trunks hundreds of wolf-lengths apart. They looked to Raleska like the bony spine of an ancient, long dead god.. and she did everything she could to avoid them. 

Standing somewhat nervously outside of the borders, Raleska picked along what appeared to be a footpath that separated the Tangle from Ankyra. She avoided swerving too far in either direction, mostly because the Tangle was too angry a place to pass through (seriously, just who pissed the plants off so much they free thorns every which way?) and she really didn’t want to go back through the creepy, impossibly large forest.