Hideaway Strath A vulture in a suit and tie

He was so close! almost there! when a presence fell in from the side and sought to scoop him up in her mighty jaws.

She? Grab him? Not a chance! He'd come too far to be caught by someone bigger, and with a yelp and a sideways shuffle, Turmeric dodged out of the red woman's grasp and bolted in a direction he hadn't meant to go -

- which he fixed, after a mad scramble to right himself after tripping across some floopsy flopsy rain-soaked ferns.

Though drenched himself, and caked with mud, Turmeric shot towards his father with a, "Daddy! Dad!" and only a glance at the woman he'd evaded - the same woman, he realized, who'd thrown Alduin to the ground some short days before.

He didn't think she'd hurt him, but he wondered why she was always around. Her presence sung a song of mystery, and even as Turmeric scampered closer to Derg and sought out one of his forelegs for shelter, he wondered just who she was.