Haunted Wood Some liar brought the thunder.

For @Vengeance.

The days felt shorter than before. He wasn't sure if it was the season's progress that dictated this, or the fact he was existing on more spite than food these days and thus felt clouded by it, but there was often darkness - or at least a greying - to everything he witnessed. The dim light of morning was shrouded in fog or lost to drifting snow; that same light was not warm when it touched him, and it did not last long. Whereas the warmer season had been replete with an almost unyielding warmth the giant found distasteful, Revui did not feel the same for the liminal chill affecting the woods. In fact, he rather liked the cold. The stronger the cold got the more numb he expected to feel, and that was true to some extent, but any energy he expended to cross the swaths of fallen snow or patrol the edge of the Nightwalker territory brought a fire to him that hummed beneath his skin. It made him feel more alive.

He had no reason to linger here, except that aforementioned spite. That and the food stores which he was now privy to, as he wasn't a captive any longer. Revui wasn't sure what role he posed here among the Nightwalkers post-escape, but nobody had come to harass him since the fight. It was entirely possible that the Alpha (that giant dark-coated man he hadn't seen before, or after, the escape attempt) had warned them all away from him. He'd spent the past few days... Alone. Tired. Hungry.

The boy was fully intent on lingering and tearing off the faces of his captors; a flare of vengeful malice coupled with his hunger to make him a disaster on four legs, patrolling the limit of the woods on the off-chance he'd come across one of those beasts. He wasn't interested in defending the territory but in destroying it, and those that dwelled within, and yet they were gone from his sight. Warned away, or ordered to stand down, while his energy levels gradually waned in light of the famine. It was a good tactic against someone like Revui, who had long ago replaced his own self worth with rage.