Ravensblood Forest been waiting all this time

A cry from the borders drew the Captain from his work.

He arrived panting, the look in his eyes a wild and desperate search for one of his missing crew or perhaps even the gone girl Erzulie. Instead, his attention snapped to a woman, pelt aflame in the rays of a rising sun. Nox regarded her stiffly for a moment, still pantherlike and largely hidden among the shadows of bleeding trees. 

"I'll give ye one chance t'explain yerselves before I'll have ya lookin' like him." A bark-like growl accompanied the man as he slithered nearer. What was she doing at his doorstep? And who was the ugly bastard beneath her? The stench of blood was intriguing as it was repulsive, and the Captain made his displeasure known with a steady rise of his bristling tail.