Jade Fern Grove lift back and see the darkness hid

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How could she not be hurt?

She had been there from the start. She had tended the wounds and had helped form the base for everything they had. She had been foolish enough to offer herself as a right hand should one ever been needed, perhaps even an equal.

Now she struggled to believe the things she had known before.

Women had bed. She had not. She had been cast down in rank and her anger only bloomed further. No season upon her in all of her gloom. So she stole away with a confidence she had never had before. Reminded of how she had wandered away from home once and had not been able to return. Would such happen again?

She dared to think not as she neared somewhere with a familiar mingle of scents. She thought of @Mahler and how easy it might be to summon him right now. To soothe herself with his presence. She thought of @Imaq and how perhaps she should have stole away with the woman in tow.

How had everything become so dark?

Even the sky was littered with clouds above the canopy of leaves.