Hideaway Strath Danger at every turn

Forward dated to December 6th! Nyra returns to the Saints from Ivory Rose :) 
@Derg & @Kynareth Deagon specifically, but AW


The journey home from the Flatlands was equally as worrisome as the trip out there had been. 
Nyra had gotten the peace of mind she seeked, but that gloomy forest was not her home. 
At the very least, not now. The future was full of uncertainty and surprises; perhaps one day she would go back?
No, not any time soon. The Saints were her family, and she didn't plan on bailing on them. 
The only ways she would leave the Saints was exile, death, or disbandment. None of which she was certain would occur in the near future. 

At the mouth of the Strath now, Nyra took a long look over the trees, the river, the mountains in the distance and the morass just in front of those peaks...
It was good to be home. 

At least for a moment, it was. The Shieldmaiden wasn't void of knowing, or expecting, the confrontation she was dreading to face from Donovan. She knew that he would notice her abscense, and he wouldn't be happy about it. Nyra also knew he would most likely see her and approach guns blazing, livid and ready to end her then and there if she didn't play her cards right. 

Nyra was actively looking for Kynareth, and Derg too for that matter. 
Mainly Kynareth though, for the second she saw him coming she would steel herself, force herself not to melt to the ground as if she had done something to earn her Lord's fury. 
Instead she would stand her ground. Not in a challenge, no, but because the ticket she would display as a valid reason for her to be gone wasn't a wrongful one. 

As the Paladin, part of her duties was to find and obtain new recruits for their ranks. Derg himself had told her this, and Nyra would voice that. 
Disappointing as it is to return empty handed, an empty hand didn't always mean failure. 

At the least, it meant effort had been made.