Phantom Hollow It's not just where you lay your head

set around this time, give or take!! Gonna probably roll to see how long she takes to get properly back, unless someone shows up to point the way XD making the assumption Alyx will stay, if not I can edit this

The trip home was a long one but should have been faster.  Unlike last time, she knew where she was going for the most part.  She'd tracked the course internally.... follow the coast, follow the river, then south.  She'd have hit familiar ground at some point, a marker she could use to map her way home.  And at first it seemed like it was going just fine!

She'd traveled along the coast, picked up her finds, and set off along the river going east with a bundle clutched firmly in her jaws.  That was gone now... Fennec cursed quietly.

Things had seriously turned, so fast she was a little disoriented actually.  Currently she was seated at the edge of an unfamiliar forest, soaking wet and shivering.  Something had tried to pin her.  She could feel the punctures at her nape and the sides of her throat, shallow.  She'd rolled, then... just air.  Then water, panic, and now she was here.

Whatever it was, it was gone now.  She'd listened for a time after she woke up here but heard nothing, and probably if it had followed it would have finished it by now.

She shook herself, trying to fluff up and dry a bit.  She'd lost her herbs, and the strange gift she'd found on the shore.  That one hurt.  She was in one piece, though, outside of a few scrapes and bruises.  Her hip ached the worst but she could walk on it fine.  It could have been worse.

Fennec tested the air, took in the scent of water and damp earth and trees.  She had no clue where she was.  I was going East... towards the sun.  But what time of day was it?  Had she left the river on the same side?  The current she thought suddenly.

She had.  That eliminated crossing, but she still wasn't sure how far she'd gone downstream.  She might have passed the caldera altogether.  Fennec let out a low growl of frustration and remained where she was, teeth clenched.  She'd been trying to rush home, knowing that if pups were coming they'd be coming soon.  She'd wanted to be there.

Whatever it was that had attacked her, she hoped it fucking drowned.