Phantom Hollow A Calling in the Dark

He was not a stealthy creature in the beginning, but in the time spent in silence upon Undersea's beaches and then in the familiar darkness of Blackfeather, the nearly mute wolf had acquired certain skills. He ghosted through the hollow as if he owned it, like the phantom who it may be named after.

Then she called our, and whatever power Titmouse felt in that moment was gone. He made himself known to her sight first - stepping in to a patch of slanting spring light - and drew close. He called to her with his rasping voice, What doing here? but the same could be asked of himself; he should have stayed in his dark wood.