Neverwinter Forest On the Doorstep

For @Okeanos!

He'd been relieved that Ibis had taken that other woman with her and left.  It removed some of the problems that had obviously been brought up.  Assuming she came back, he'd probably have thought up something to say to really make sure that she understood that this was all his and if she couldn't act respectful towards him, then maybe she didn't belong here.  Everyone left, after all, so it wasn't gonna be particularly surprising if she stayed gone to begin with.  It'd be less drama.

But right then, Okeanos seemed to be gone too.  Mal kept flipping back on forth on whether that was coincidence or conspiracy -- was he with Ibis or had he just been gone by chance?  Cam had gone too, so maybe he'd found a trail to that kid... In all honestly he probably would have stewed himself into a quite a conflagration if the earth itself hadn't interrupted.

Shall we say that Mal was very shaken by it all?  Some other obvious pun?  Even after the rumbling stopped, he continued feeling anxious, flitting about the territory for some kind of answer.  He looked more like a wild creature, slightly unkempt, certainly shifty, his eyes flicking quickly from thing to thing that moved in the distance.  Mal came to the borders, looking out to the distance, then quickly under a tree into the shadowed lower branches that drooped close to the ground and he looked out from between the needles.