Noctisardor Bypass YOU'RE FIT TO LEARN THE MEANING OF A BEATDOWN, MADNESS, CHAOS IN THE BRAIN

She was a ghost in the Creek; a silent shadow lingering at the peripheral, a fading memory of the girl who had been Akavir's daughter. At times she heard Moss calling to her from the swamp. Mae did not listen. Not again.

But she thought of the man often. Lasher. Where had she heard that name?

Mae departed without speaking to @Arric, thinking that perhaps she would visit Kvarsheim. She had liked it well enough there. But when she neared the borders, she suddenly heard Moss's voice from within; Moss, calling to her. She froze.

And then she fled. Where, she didn't know; anywhere to be away, anywhere at all. Mae didn't expect to find anyone. Yet there she was —

Wren, curled on the ground like a dying bug. And wasn't this scene familiar? Mae strode up to her with eyes far softer than they'd been the first time she'd found her like this. Wren, She said, not understanding what she saw, and yet — You're hurt. Wasn't she?