Ankyra Sound Whisper

The wolf approaching was friendly, a wag of his tail and yet she could not fully bring herself to match it. Instead she looked up and stumbled to a halt. His words, any other day she might have taken for a kindness in the query, only startled a harsh burst of air from her lungs. "I wish. No. No, I know where I am, I always know where I am." She knew her distance from Samani's corpse, knew her proximity, knew that no matter where she went she could not run to a place closer or farther away from her spirit. Felt the weight of that.

The words took the wind out of her and she looked away, ashamed at the outburst. A broken smile on her face as she spoke again, words more even. "Sorry," A slight shift in her tone along the lines of speech a hint at her old humor. "I'm poor company today unlike yourself, my name is Heph."