Neverwinter Forest Insidious is blind inception

for @Mal whenever you have time

Things hadn't been bad here, if you ignored the occasional pangs of guilt that liked surface at random times...which she dutifully did. The forest was large and oddly warmer than the surrounding areas, although the cold didn't much bother her thanks to the thick coat compliments of her northern heritage. The prey situation wasn't any better here than it had been back in Diaspora, but she wasn't surprised. Whatever was going on had thoroughly scared away anything large enough to sustain a pack. But there weren't many here to hunt for, and she had grown pretty used to being hungry, or rather had found many ways to take her mind off of it. 

She had tracked a hare for a bit before abandoning the trail when it began to fade near the edge of the territory. She had settled for a patrol instead to distract her from her empty stomach, remembering what Mal had told her about his hostile neighbors. So far, she had found nothing alarming save for the eerily dark sky to the east. It had been that way for a while now, but it never ceased to send an icy tendril of dread through her chest. It was definitely an ominous sight, and she wondered if it was connected to the earthquakes and collapsing mountains. She shook off the discomfort and continued to walk, stopping occasionally to inspect a rock or tree as she made her way along the edge of the forest.