Hello, My Old Heart [AW]

Well… Karabela had clearly taken a wrong turn somewhere. She gazed at the narrow pass and the darkening clouds overhead as she debated if she should turn back. The woman was on her way to the Red Forest but for some reason she didn't feel she could directly approach it because every time she did she'd find herself turning back. Well, now here she was peering into a suspicious looking mountain pass. Oh yea, this was going to end well…. She felt the hair on the back of her neck rise up as she paused listening. Everything was painfully quiet and still. That was the oddity of winter, the complete absence of sound except for the occasional gust of wind. Should she turn back? She was about to stride forward when the sound of crunching snow caught her attention. She wasn't alone.

"Speech"