Hushed Willows someone's been told too many times they're beyond their years

@Seabreeze, forward dated like a day or two

Things were almost perfect. The new territory was great--and, most importantly, cat-free--and everyone was settling in nicely. Almost everyone. Korei and Alarian still hadn't returned, and while she had no great worry for the latter (who did this kind of thing a lot), Lily fretted over Korei. This was not in her character, and as time went on, she began to assume more and more that her friend had found trouble along the way.

The blackbird paced the northern border, marking sporadically, her tail lashing. It felt quite different from Broken Boulder. There, things had been out in the open; they had been in the shadow of the forest, but not within. Now, they were surrounded by all things green--it was beautiful, but the light was a little dimmer; there were more places to hide. It would take some time to get used to it.

There were a lot of things to get used to, she supposed. All her life had been these past moons was getting used to anything that came her way. Survival, innit? It was a wisdom she had only just recently discovered, and she wasn't sure if she liked it all that much.