Overture Downs Set the Sails

Just to make timeline stuff easier, set before Merrick and Laurel are discovered to be dead.

@Thade

She roved with the intention of predator, cutting through the darkness after having stolen away from Ursus. They wouldn’t miss her, she figured. Her needs, it seemed, would not be answered there- so she roamed abroad, occasionally uttering a low, crooning call- a summons. Her ullulating calls wove their way through the clearing and the surrounding areas. 

She’d reflected on a conversation she had had with Merrick some time ago; she already saw the irony. She’d wanted a king, and to have heirs- and she knew how fickle it was for her now to seek patronage from any random stranger whether or not they had skills or desirable genetics. If only she’d known how powerful her instincts would become when possessed by such strong hormones, she might have chosen her words better. 

Regardless of that small, dogging thought, she knew still what it was she desired- and she called out again into the darkness, so that it might bring forth her king.