Neverwinter Forest all for the best

Tags for reference, but y'all are welcome to hop in! Attn: @Laroche

A thick layer of evergreen pines stand sentinel. Arm in arm, they weave their boughs together, creating a dense canopy of branches that fend off both rain and snow. The forest floor is shadowed. Here and there a beam of sun penetrates to the ground below, but these rays of light are seldom and few. Where they touch, infant life reaches for the skies. Soft ferns and saplings spread, cloaking the ground with downy moss and fallen pine needles. This forest protects itself and with it, has become home to several herds of deer.

After meeting the neighbors and hearing the incessant howls of a nearby pack that seemed to have just moved in, Cyclone reluctantly decided that as much as she liked this little safe place surrounded by mountains, she couldn't safely make a home here. Begrudgingly, she sent up a call alerting @Dashiell, @Ingram, and @Vyn that she was going to travel back in the northwestern direction again and search for a more suitable place for all of them to live. With that out of the way, she sat there for a long moment on a ridge, looking down into the valley where she had spent quite a bit of time now. She took a deep breath in, said a silent goodbye, and bid it farewell.

Her feet took her slowly and steadily through the burnt-down forest, and she eventually came upon a much nicer looking forest that barely looked touched by the weather outside. The canopy overhead was thick, the ground below scarcely scattered with snow, and it was rather peaceful. Maybe, just maybe, this would do.