Horizon Ridge i gave you everything, but then you wanted more

hoping for @Grezig ! set for late tomorrow.

she did not linger long in the grotto’s hearth. too long she had wandered, some transient with neither home nor hearth. like a temporal ghoul she departed its walls, for she had one final mission.

her children would be fine. with what evils had befell her family, she was confident in their ability to withstand it. in a way her exodus from ankyra, the harrowing footrace that ensued, the presumed death of half her family, the gradual decline and abrupt end to her stay in redhawks, and the journey leading up to now — it had all been her and her offspring’s crucible. their blighted curse to bear.

she knew where she was going, though her mind forbade the thought of it. yet there was no direct line from here to there — that distant goal that brooded ominously on the horizon.

she would go back to where it had all began; a pilgrimage the siren queen would endure alone.