Overture Downs You should go and love yourself*

Saena has never been here before, but she identifies with the plain in a way, as if it's somehow familiar. Likely she is remembering a territory she's passed through before, but now that she thinks of it, it was different—dotted with bushes rather than these low-branched trees. Her walk is slow and relaxed but unhalting as she scouts the land south of Jade Fern Grove. Phoenix Maplewood isn't near enough for this place to mean anything to her, but curiosity was what led her to become an outrider and it still holds the reins of that particular trade. She glances over her shoulder at the grove behind her, but her memory of running into Morran there sends a shudder up her spine and forces her to keep going forward rather than doubling back.

The wind is high and cold, enough to make her nose feel frigid. Her plush coat protects her for the most part though her paws are growing cold as well. Soon, Saena will need to rest. Until then, she plans to explore every inch of the meadow, commit it to memory as best she can. If the herds chose to move out of the north when the snows came, this might be as good a place as any to search for them and knowing something of the land would certainly help any attempt she made to bring down prey here.

@Luke

Present tense challenge.