Blackfeather Woods want my friend, want my heart’s mend

thank you for the thread! <3

indeed, it all happened so fast - astara managed to escape, springing for her sister -- and the stranger, realizing perhaps two vs one was a desperate man's game, found his amusement elsewhere. the girl was in no condition to chase after him, but with her sister besides her, watched his receding form with cold superiority in her gaze.

never you mind that if averna had not appeared, astara surely would have met her end if sanguinus was so inclined.

she followed her sister mutely back to the alter once they were sure sanguinus had departed -- and then, while her sister took to tending the altar's stony face, astara slunk to her usual spot nearby and took a fretful, sorrowed-with-vivid-dreams nap.