The Heartwood Now we're climbing higher

she has to bite back the sharp desire to let loose a treacherous laugh upon realising where it is that flicker roams towards. the fucking heartwood, are you serious? the one forest she'd skipped over due to pure assumption but come on, who wouldn't assume that no one would be just plain stupid enough to set up shop somewhere like that. but then again, if going somewhere no one would think to look was your idea then she supposed they'd definitely gotten that in the bag alright. 

yet as she passes into the burnt out shell of a wood she realises that the place really is uninhabited and always had been. at that dark eyes narrow in instant suspicion, she'd already been on high alert but it's x100 now as she peers cautiously about her surroundings. her nose continues to twitch with each light step, making sure flicker hasn't backtracked to surprise her or gathered a few buddies but it still continues on so albeit slowly, she still follows like a small pale shadow. 

it's after a bit more of this that she realises that flicker is simply passing through the wasteland and already as she grows closer to the edge she can catch that all too familiar whiff of melonii. her nose wrinkles in instant distaste although something else twinges within her too as she catches herself unable to think that not too far away might be aries. really not the time to care about that but it had been months since she'd seen him, she hadn't even known maegi yet which made it in turn seem like a lifetime ago. these blackfeather wolves had come to mean so much to her so fast, it was honestly a bit unsettling. 

at that she'd be jerked back into reality by the sudden increasing strength of flicker's scent and sure enough a couple more steps had the girl coming into view, a splash of crimson amongst the bland colours associating the death around them. she's cautious at first but she'd been trained in the mode of combat and it didn't fail her now, her senses could tell her with practised ease that there was no one else waiting here. for now at least, it was still just her and flicker. with that in mind she'd basically stroll over as if ready to address an old friend. well funny that, flicker almost was in some twisted way. "well look at that, what are the odds hm?" although that little grin would resume its position curling around her snout, there was a dark glittering to her eyes that betrayed the real situation at paw. under her thick pelt her muscles tensed, she knew now where her pack sheltered but the question was, was flicker going to let her away with it?