Blackfoot Forest spring swaps snow for leaves

Glaukos had brought the trio (@Mercedes, @Djinn) as far as he was willing to go with them; now he was building a final camp, intent on getting the old woman and her young charge situated so that he could disperse from their company in good conscience, and take himself home to Moonspear. He had found a secluded gully that led in to blackwood forest, with the mountains ranging high and impassible behind it; this would do, he thought.