Ravensblood Forest Mixed feelings [mature]

Happens after this stuff.

He should've turned around and headed back to the Sound, where he belonged. It was his now. His, Rosalyn's, and in the coming days it would become the realm of their children. It had yet to sink in that he was going to be a father — too preoccupied with the chaos from hours ago; all that bloodshed, the weakness of Caiaphas, getting her closer to home and to safety, it was a lot to deal with so soon after assuming the mantle of Alpha. He wasn't thinking clearly when he departed from the Sound thereafter. Too hyped up after the battle and stressed out, practically livid, and needing some way to run it off.

But yes, to the point — he didn't turn around. Instead of going home he delved further west, and as he went he found himself struck with a strong, heady, overwhelmingly dazzling sense of deja vu. He couldn't remember being here before; the mountains weren't that familiar, nor was the forest that he'd found and began to climb through. Yet somehow the combination of the ocean-scent and the darkness of the woodland caused Firefly to become confused.

He slowed his pace and eventually came to a halt where the light managed to permeate the forest's overgrowth. It was there that his deja vu ended; the sense that he had been here before, knew this place, evaporated. He took a few deep breaths and tried to focus his mind, and in doing so became intoxicated by another scent - something warm, inviting, calling for him to get closer. He thought of Erzulie as he moved, but soon came face-to-face with a dark shape among the trees and with a chuff, alerted the distracted woman to his presence.