Otatso Wetlands Weatherwise

For the first time in a very long time Esma felt truly lost. Over the months she had not yearned to return to Riverclan, eager to explore the world that held the promise to answer her questions about gods. The fortune had smiled upon her all through summer and most of the autumn, until she decided to return to Riverclan in hopes to spend the winter months there. She knew that Ash Paw would never turn her down. 

However, when she had arrived to her former home, she found it completely empty. No sign of any wolves living. She checked the former altars, where her mother used to leave gifts and they were long since abandoned. Here and there were remnants of, what could have been an offering to the bear gods, but no one had tended for them in a long time. Confused and clueless about, what to do now, she wandered northwards, back to the coast, where the weather was milder. 

More than ever she yearned to meet John again - the priest had a knack of appearing in her life, when she needed her the most, but it seemed that now even he was more busy listening to his god than hearing that Esma was thinking about him a lot a quietly praying his god to send him her way. However, there was some god that had listened to her, for, when she stopped to have a drink, she saw just as dreary and lonely person as she did. However, shy and never the first one to make contact, she waited quietly for the stranger to notice her.