Emberwood We didn't start the fire. (UG)

I tried to tag everyone involved with UG from memory but there are a lot of you! :) This is meant as a lil meeting to discuss moving. Please reply at least once! Since there are so many people involved we don't have to do rounds unless people feel the need. Thanks dudes! (Adding the rest: @Séamus @Sneheks @Drysvys). This is not a formation thread! Just a meetup!

The marsh felt wrong to Ibis, being one of the last places she had seen her brother, but her auntie was right—if he were to return to the area and search for her it wouldn't be difficult to reunite. They could stay in the valley at the very least, and Ibis could always double-back to the marsh and do infrequent patrols. It would be okay, she told herself... Everything would work out, because it had to. Anyway—she departed from the territory where everyone had been busy the past few days; when they weren't getting to know one another they were discovering the marsh, getting adapted to the sponginess of the terrain or hunting for the tiny beasts that persisted while the larger things had fled.

The girl went west; she knew there was a forest that way, remembering how she'd scoured the tree line for signs of deer weeks ago (and found a new friend to add among the rest, instead). Compared to the dreary and drab look of the marsh, the forest was a vast improvement. The season had left some trees barren of their leaves but those that retained them were breathtaking; crowned in gold, wreathed in red, the light caught against what leaves remained and made everything glow with a warm and inviting light. Ibis was in love as she moved between the trees.

She did not go too far, though. The trees were thinner along the edge of the forest, and she soon sought out a cleared area where the leaves had gathered in a great pile. They were everywhere! The ground was rust-colored because of the piles of leaves, and the entire expanse smelled rich and spiced, almost. Ibis pranced through the leaves but as she explored the clearing she found that the leaves were piled higher than her shoulders, and as badly as she wanted to jump in to one of those piles, she didn't want to be swallowed up.

This was a good place, she decided. With a lift of her chin the girl let out a little song, and as it grew in intensity it carried from the flaming forest and out to the marsh: '@Kukulkan, @Bhediya, @Awol, everyone—come here, please!' She paused for breath and then sang the same message again, this time calling for '@Pygmalion, @Marten, @Sarah, @Maiira,' and after, feeling a bit light-headed, she settled to her haunches with the leaf piles surrounding her.

Something little flickered between the trees, a shadow caught between the many embers; Ibis glanced to it, half expecting it to be a wavering branch in the wind or something just as useless, what with the emptiness of the world right now. Staring at her from high up a nearby tree was a tiny woodpecker,