Ravensblood Forest anytime

This is intended for Pied but anyone can reply! Takes place in Ravensblood Forest right alongside the mountain edge of Gryfalcon's Keep.

(Also Kat if you decide to reply I'll let you decide whether it's before or after Ariston is accepted into BDP)
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A blight on the earth by some...a conquest by others. That's what the decrepit remains of an ancient landslide spoke of to those who wandered too far from the beaten paths between territories. The vomited pile of mountain appealed to him in a particular sort of way and he took little into consideration - ownership, peril, and whatnot - before his mind decided at once that he must conquer this inanimate beast of the woodland.

He ascended the crumbling rocks, stubbed and worn nails scrabbling against the granite shells that sloughed off beneath the forceful heaving of his climb. His able body, boasting of all things young and strong, earned its keep in the final moments of his rising. Sure footedness certainly kept the likelihood of his falling at bay...he hardly seemed aware of the danger even as his ears detected the clatter of usurped pebbles during their freefall to solid ground.

Higher and higher until the wind whistled in his ears. Until his head broke through the virgin clouds and he could cast his eyes on what hid behind them. Until he could chew on the glittering marvels that he'd once been told were stars. Until he was free of the failures he'd endured and the responsibly of his guilt, his regrets, ceased suckling on his thoughts and left him alone to be the carefree fellow he'd always been before.

He could never get that high.

Golden eyes looked upon the quiet forest around him and his useless stack of boulders and, despite his turmoil, a grin perked at the edge of his lips. King of the rock at last, his brain murmured.