Blackfeather Woods there is something rotten in the state of Denmark

it is perhaps unfair that the realization strikes her now, when previously she was so close to living her own life, choices made without influence from her past. but the choices she makes now are not her own - they are what will benefit most greatly all of them, for she is coming to the slow realization that she most safeguard those she carries. she has not paused long to analyze the situation, for then surely she'd feel hate and fear and all those ugly things. and so for now, she does what is easiest - she moves steadily toward the blot on the horizon, made steady by her sole purpose here now.

it is evening when she pauses at the borders so foreign and yet so familiar, revolting and yet one of few chances for safety. Maegi was here, and so would be others of her caliber - there was little reason to postpone. she called for an audience, noticing not the shadow that settled near.