Neverwinter Forest Checking out the dance floor

Backdated a week+ (two? what r dates) and currently wibbly-wobbly place in time but wanting to get this actually going so they can get shoved over to YL, heh. This is probably a maximum of three rounds? I'm also PPing pretty vaguely for people to show up so Mal can explain so we don't have hawkward "Xyz arrives at the place and waits" posts, it's been long enough. Specifics may be tweaked & narration added depending on other thread.

@Aibreann @Nuala @Cam @Caerus and Ciaran will be here too but I play him so shhh -- I know some may be recently-ish caught by sweeper or otherwise slow, just poke me on Discord if you need an assumption or two made and/or anything has changed.
@Tuathal -- I know we talked previously about you playing him again so he might come along? If he's not, no prob, feel free to ignore my tag. :P
@Jackalope -- We also already talked, your choice if you wanna have him say bye here or if you wanted it BTS! Date is still wobbly, so... Yeah >_>

After all that had happened, all the loss... How many good memories were there in the forest now, truly? How many had been poisoned and replaced by darkness? Mal wasn't sure. All he knew was that by now everything that had happened, everyone that had he had lost weighed him down -- it was crushing. Those that he had left he had to protect, one way or another, and he couldn't do this alone. How many had he lost? He didn't want to go through the list again -- it started too early and went too long. So he tipped his head back and howled for his pack to meet him near the heart of the packland.

But as faces arrived, it felt so final, even though he was sure that the majority were going to travel with them -- they were family, after all. Perhaps it really was a mournful time, based on what he was going to say. I don't know if we can stay here any more. So many bad things happened recently -- it would be safer for all of us to go somewhere else. The few of them that remained. Even Kyr had disappeared, as she had kind of threatened to. Hua's pack will take us all in. I think it would be best. -- I don't want to give up our home, but with all that's happened to us.. Around us, assuming Mal found out about MSP & co from Hua, if not, ignore that. I just can't risk any of you if for some reason the world's acting against us for staying here. It's too much. Far too much loss. And even admitting that they should probably give up on their home hurt in its own way, but Mal wasn't fool enough to place some land above his family, at least not when the risk assessment of the moment went so strongly against him.