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He'd been working on a new song when she called him. It was a ballad, one whose ending might shift and change as time went, but that he thought maybe was finished enough now. He was softly singing it through a second time, shifting through withered plant stalks, when he stopped to respond with a call of his own. Coming. He could leave these here for now.


Ashlar arrived as soon as he could to find her digging. The forest was wrong, but he picked up on her mood first. His tail tucked a bit nervously but he came forward, trying to catch a glimpse in the hole she'd begun. What's wrong?

This place held fire. Ashlar only knew it because his parents had shown him once. He'd never seen it work but he'd seen the aftermath.