Neverwinter Forest Inside Information

He was alone -- for now at least.  Okeanos had gone off chasing Ibis, while Mal remained to guard the forest.  There had been another upheaval, but the forest was still whole -- for now at least.  The pack wasn't, but he would still try.  He would try despite looking a bit wild, feeling more uncivilized and feral than he had a right to be, but nothing explained what was going on with the world, and there was nothing there for him to fight.  It just was.

The world outside the forest had been dusted in snow, and it remained through the night but not in the forest.  Mal stood on the edge, beneath the trees, looking out to the white and unknown.  Okay, it wasn't too unknown, but right now he wondered what the world out there was like.  He knew his forest, and just as it was kept free of snow aside from the trees' top branches, he would keep it safe.