Ravensblood Forest /ˈraʊdɪ/

"AW" but tagging @Shiv! :)

After a few days of traveling, it was good to be home in Ravensblood Forest with the rest of Pandora. Although Ultraviolet kept her own small nest made of twigs and mud, she made a point to visit her parents' nest and tell her mother all about her recent adventures. Iridescent was all at once intrigued by her daughter's stories and frightened by them. Most of the flock did not stray far from the forest, after all. They parted with Iridescent fussing over UV and making her promise she wouldn't leave the Teekon Wilds.

"Yes, mother," she said sweetly, perhaps a bit too sweetly. It wasn't a promise she intended to keep forever. Just happy to have avoided the subject of finding a mate, Ultraviolet pecked her mother's cheek and then took flight, weaving between the treetops until she floated down into the crook of a towering oak. Most of the jays in the flock preferred the coniferous trees but UV loved the old oak tree. Clacking her beak and puffing out her feathers, she settled down in her nest of one.

The next morning, she rose just before the sun, hopped to one of the oak's scraggliest uppermost branches and sang an obnoxiously loud song to greet the day. With a chuckle, she then thrust upward through the canopy and quickly located one of the coast's many thermals. Ultraviolet was drifting lazily, pondering whether to venture out or stick close to home today, when she saw three familiar members of her flock break from the treetops and rise toward her...