Blackfeather Woods my body's broken pieces

backdated to june 5th - set after this thread

by the time she reached the borders of her home the light had faded from the world and the moon hung high in a dark sky, basking everything in its eerie glow. tundra looked ghostly save the lack of her usual grace as she trudged towards the treeline- muscles aching from nothing more than pure exhaustion. and okay she had gotten a few scratches from flicker- the most prominent being the one that had split the fur of her chest and stained the pale fur a soft edged crimson but even it was only shallow and did nothing but sting which rather than being exactly painful was just plain annoying, a bit like having an itch you just couldn't reach. it looked worse than it was anyway.

the relief to set her paws down on her own soil was almost overpowering and for a moment she literally swayed- overcome with a strange feeling of...jeez she didn't even know. it was a good emotion but at the same time it hurt, it just really reminded her as to why she'd felt so passionate about this place when defending it to flicker and it just felt so good to be home, home yes this was home...home, home home. not here because she had to be but because she wanted to be. because she...loved it here.

god she must've hit her head even harder off of flicker's chest than she'd thought.

a rustle above her had her glancing up and a smile creeped along her jaw; this time a sincere one and not some triggering smirk. bertók. "hey you" she'd murmur softly and he'd drop silently from his perch to land lightly on her shoulder, tugging behind her ear which earned a surprised little noise from her jaws until he lifted off of her again- clutching a reddish patch of fur in his beak. wrinkling her nose in disgust, tundra would shake her head at the raven; "you can definitely get rid of that" he gave her a knowing look and took off without a word...or a caw, whatever. now she'd fall back on her haunches, long tail resting on the grass behind her, well as much as she'd love to just curl up and sleep right here even if it was the edge of the border, she wanted to get back to ramsay when everything was fresh in her mind.

so she'd throw back her head and let out a long h00wl in request for @Ramsay and if she was up to it, @Maegi. hoping somehow that she'd miraculously recovered since she'd left.