Heron Lake Plateau j'ai toujours vécu ici pourtan

Spring was coming—or so she had been told. The signs of it were everywhere, from the hardy sprigs of green that dared to spring, to the slow melt of snow and the rise of the lake to its former banks. It was the lake where she found herself today, skirting the muddy shore and through the damp reeds with no particular focus to guide her. It simply felt good to go for a light stroll, especially when the winter had kept her close to warmth and safety.

There'd been enough turmoil to last a lifetime as far as she was concerned. While the nuances of such things were not entirely lost on her, she couldn't figure out why things were ever in a state of constant change. She couldn't quite figure out just why anyone would have wanted to leave the plateau—least of all, Eljay for instance. Even if he had come back to visit and wasn't all that far away in reality, the sting still burned even now.

She thought about those things less and less, but they had come up to the forefront of her mind as she narrowly missed going in the lake herself. Some of the dips and dives along the muddy, reeded terrain were not the same as they one had been and in spite for all the growing and learning she had, there were some things still in progress. Phoebe had come there originally to see if she could find anything she could have brought back for @Raven, but now after that close call... well, she had paused and cast her gaze over the choppy waters.

open for anyone, sorry you get to deal with me trying to work through things with phoebe haha