Emberwood awebo

rebuffed at sacrarium, belen had returned to blackwater. but she had found it empty. abandoned. in the days since her departure it had become only the islands once more. she had gone through each of them, eating what she could find and sleeping in different places. and then she had come back to the mainland and headed away from the sea. long days had passed. belen fed herself with the little hunting skills she had acquired. she passed the mountains on one side and the taiga on the other. by the time she reached the sunlit valley, she was weakened and near starving. she collapsed at the base of a great gnarled pine and slept the exhausted slumber of a damned soul, drifting in and out of consciousness as her paws slowly bled.