Ravensblood Forest It was all for a reason, it has to be.

Opalia turned away from Elysium disappointed, too. It had been her initial suggestion to go there in the first place, but evidently, her knowledge had only granted them temporary reprieve. She was more than ready to see it through as Dacio saw fit under his control, and frankly, hopeful for the opportunity to have something real of the sort to help protect and build. But before it could really begin, everything had fractured worse than even the pair of them could hope to patch up with Sunny's family taking up most of the ranks, and preferring to follow him anyway. Elysium had suffered for the last time, and with her brother's call, it was done.

So once again, they were off. This time, at least more rested and fed than before and not freshly licking their wounds. But now they had an entire trembling mountain range to worry about. I don't either.. she agreed, about the coast, and had narrowed her eyes off to a fixed point ahead, between the trees a moment before glancing back to Dacio when she decided it was nothing. Too quickly. They knew first.. seemed like, she sighed, for that observation had bothered her--with winter approaching. And too close to the mountains can't be that great if it's all going to rumble like this, Opalia reasoned, casting a stormy glance to the range that had been their first plan to travel along, before Elysium's collapse.

She couldn't rest so easily both away from the shoreline and with peaks towering overhead while underfoot the earth literally shook and shifted, though, no matter what satisfying opportunity they may find within the mountains. For right now, she was going to have to suggest they veer elsewhere.. I've never been very far inland on the south of the range, though. Maybe there's.. something. But what should they even be looking for at this point, short of everything to survive the winter? A daunting thought to carry right now.