Nova Peak Yeah, I'm loving all your warning signs

Thade took to exploring the broad avenues of his anxiety during the time his mother went perusing off grid. The boy refused to leave Sagtannet’s realm himself, and he severely disproved of it when others took to traipsing outside their given borders, but it was a worse feeling to be trapped by one’s own boundaries when a loved one might be in danger.

He could only pace to calm his nerves. Imagining all the terrible things that could be happening to her out there…

Then he heard it, her summoning howl, allowing relief to uplift him from the pit of his troubled thoughts. She’s back. Yet, the pressing tone of her voice brought forth an additional bubbling of irrational assumptions, confirming only his worst fears. Oh gods, she’s lost her other eye! I knew this would happen if I didn’t go with her!

The boy didn’t waste a single moment descending. He arrived, panting and wild-eyed, zeroing in on Wylla, who appeared fine. Artifice! He dodged forward to make certain, ostensibly forgetting to “read the room,” as he aimed to snuffle fiercely about her salt-lashed frame, hunting for injury.