Ravensblood Forest there is a light that turns on when you’re feeling alone

Birdsong roused her from sleep. Treepie’s eyelids fluttered as she began to stir. She groaned, her entire body aching as she raised her head and opened her eyes. They hadn’t walked that far, nor was the terrain very arduous, so she had no idea why she felt like she’d tumbled down a mountain. That thought immediately made her heart clench and sink in her chest.

With a lump in her throat and tears threatening to prick at her eyes, Pie pushed upright. She stretched gingerly, muzzle pointed at the canopy overhead as she tried to coax some of the stiffness from her back. They’d decided to spend the night in Bramblepoint and would continue to the caldera today. She’d probably just slept badly.

She dropped her head and looked around for @Alaric and Tikaani. She saw neither, nor did she smell them when she sniffed at the air. They’d probably woken up earlier and went scrounging for breakfast, though Pie’s brow furrowed in consternation when she couldn’t find their paw prints, nor the sleeping spots they’d scratched out in the dirt.

Tiuttuk stood… and swayed as her head began to pound. She fell onto her left hip with a small cry, her yellow eyes slamming shut and teeth clenching. The agony slowly subsided, eliciting a shaky gasp. She had never known anything like it and had no clue what might’ve caused it.

When she cracked open her eyes again, Treepie slowly realized that something else was wrong. She had gone to sleep in a forest and woken up in one, but it didn't look or smell right, now that she was paying attention. And still there was no sign of her two companions.

Ignoring the sharp pain it caused, she called their names. Pie strained her ears. The birds went on singing as though nothing was amiss. One even stared at her from a nearby branch, its peculiarly flat face and beady eyes striking in her a deep and terrible foreboding.