Ravensblood Forest Spirits

"Ly-Lynette? Is that you?" Had her mother's voice not roused her, the shakes that took hold of her certainly would have. Puppy-blue eyes flitted open and Lennox blinked several times before looking up at her mother with her ears back in evident concern. "Mum?" her tiny voice broke the nights stillness and she shifted so that she could sit up and follow her mother's gaze into the nothingness before them. "Nobody's there, mama... Are they?"