Blackfeather Woods my star has left me to take the bitter pill

astara reeled under averna's edict, her sights hardened in defiance. mou stepped into her path and like a flighty cat, the girl shrugged the pelvic bone from her shoulders and bolted, the stone clutched tightly in her jaws. her mother's bones could stay, but astara would not -- the way both her sister and mou lingered around her seemed like overcrowding, and suddenly the girl was overwhelmed by hysteric claustrophobia.

she did not turn back. if any soul pursued her, they would discover she had fled from blackfeather, and gone into the climbing chill of the mountains above.