Chimera Fields kyne’s peace

A stirring of ground. The sound of steps. Vairë dreaded looking, but when she did, it was no ghost.

Only Lestan’s wife, Reverie.

The doe gently hummed in greeting, her eyes following the woman’s line of sight to the distant forest.

It is not a good place. She said aloud, her ears falling back to her head.

My blood mother, Löté. She was creating a village there. She became pregnant with my little sibling. And then she vanished after birthing him. Evil walks in those woods, I feel it. It didn’t help the want to be bitter, to be angry, to be irrationally sad. But she would not speak ill of her mother, no matter how she felt personally.