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she shakes her head, casting off his apology. he hadn't meant to upset her. and she isn't upset, really—not with him. it's the weight of it all; the gaping hole left in her heart with Astara's absence. no other being she has loved so much, nor will so again.

but he understands. it wahh 'hhem, she agrees, and rises to her paws.

wanders, a bit, before placing one of said paws upon a long-dead tree trunk, still not broken by the elements.

blagck, like her, Avicus remarks, and glanced back toward Ashlar. her eyes hold his for a moment before lifting her forelimb and observing the sooty bits left behind.

Raven Hollow, she intones.

her mother is in this place. this broken, blackened, beautiful place.