Ravensblood Forest of the third kind

Finishing to bring it to 10! Maybe another soon, once Tiarnán's lone-wolf-or-pack-wolf status is worked out? I don't know what other plotting is going on with him. Ping me a PM if you're game. :)

She looked back until the beach was obscured from view by row after irregular row of tree trunks. Before long, the smell of damp humus replaced salt, and the sun's glow became white glare that filtered, soft and green, through the dense crowns above her. Several times on her way back to Swiftcurrent Creek, she turned tail and sprinted back, but the whim burned out before she could make significant progress.

And he would be gone by now - blazing west into distant nothingness, never to be seen again.