Jade Fern Grove circle of life

It wasn't often that Etienne left his sister. He saw no reason. He had burned all his bridges or they had been burned for him. He still hated Heda which wasn't fair. Anselm had all but told him to leave him alone. So that had been a goodbye. And he had left his family again. For suzu but still.

He tilted a lightened ear forward as he moved through a grove. The heady scent of plants and trees tickling his nostrils. There was a softer sheen to his fur, but a wilder look to his body. Rangey and always in motion he was hardly still.

Feathers wound in fur he walked among the trees oblivious he wasn't alone.