It's Not Easy

She had been making her way up through Alacritis since her run in with her sister slowly but steadily. She had intended to pay a visit to her family's old home, but the closer she got the more she was dreading it. She just couldn't make herself do it, especially since she knew her parents and siblings wouldn't be there to greet her. That fact just made going back to that place, or even being close to that place, more depressing than like a homecoming. She sighed as she thought about it, frowning and softly saying to herself, "Oh well... I didn't need to go there anyway."

In an attempt to put that out of her mind she focused on the area around her. She hadn't really been paying much attention to where she had been going so she was a little surprised to see the desolate land she had ended up in. Curious, she went over to one of the fallen logs near her and she hopped up onto it so she could get a better look around. She was too short to see very far from the ground. Just as she was scanning the area the log under her began to tremble and her ears fell back against her head. "What the...?" Everything seemed to shake around her for a few moments and it startled her enough that she lost her footing tumbled to the ground, landing hard on her right shoulder.

A few moments later everything was still again and she groaned as she pulled herself up again. Her shoulder was aching, but it wasn't anything worse than when she rammed her shoulder into an opponent. What really got her was the scratch she had gotten across her paw pads and across her cheek as her skin caught on the rough bark on her way down to the ground. She made a soft hissing sound as she sucked in air though her teeth at the stinging pain. She could feel the blood seeping into the fur on her cheek, but she ignored it for a moment as she sank down onto her haunches to carefully lick over the cut across the pads of her right forepaw.

"Speak"