Ocean's Breath Plateau It's just ink on paper

Heph responded to the call with no small amount of trepidation. The thick fog of mourning still seemed to hang over the plateau and with Rodyn absent and Samani gone forever she feared what news might beckon. Rodyn, the children? She rushed there with perhaps more haste than decorum but slowed at the unfamiliar face at their borders bearing a crossfox pelt.

Tipping her head a tired smile slanted itself half-heartedly across her lips. "Welcome to Moontide. I'm Heph, a beta here. What brings such a lady to call?" Her voice was warm and polite, but missing a more familiar jaunty cadence.