Red Wine and Moonlight

It was still late in the night when Romulus and Lillith had snuck out of Hallowed lands. The only indication he had that it was actually night and not some sort of corruption of daylight was the fact that everyone else in the pack was still asleep. Time had virtually no meaning anymore when every hour of the day looked the same. The silver-furred wolf had crossed the empty great hall and slipped down into the wine cellars as quietly as he could, absconding with a bottle of sweet red wine for him and his lover to enjoy together. Though Roman had tasted alcohol on a couple occasions in his life, this would be his first time truly drinking in abundance outside of a festival or a feast. Truly the Armada hedonism gene was strong in him! With his prize secured, he snuck off into the night with Lil at his side, reveling in the feeling of being outside and alive!

He led the two of them south, crossing some wild lands to reach the falls he'd passed when he first arrived in Auster. He remembered how beautiful they had been in the normal world, and they were no exception in this strange twisted world either. The water flowed mellifluously over the rocks of the cliff, cascading in tranquil falls into a pool so clear it reflected the auroras in the sky above. The pool drained into a gentle stream that trailed towards the ocean. The bluish glow of the full moon almost made the water appear as if it was glowing, and though some of those strange crystals still grew on the sides of the cliff and some trees, Romulus made sure to pick a spot out on the grass near the water far enough away from them that they wouldn't have to worry. Also... were they starting to disappear? There seemed to be fewer of them around now...

"Here we are!" he declared with a toothy smile to his beloved girlfriend, giving her rump a teasing bat with his bushy tail before trotting briskly ahead to lead the way up a slope in the earth to the top of the cliffs. He settled down in a spot of soft grass near where the falls began bubbling up from the earth, their elevated position giving them a breathtaking view across all of nearby Auster as well as a picture perfect scene of the colors dancing in the night sky with streaks of stars dancing and twirling overhead. "Can your man pick a location or what?" He gave a husky chuckle while he popped the cork stopper from the neck of the bottle with his teeth as he waited for Lillith to join him, the aroma of fermented grapes and summer fruits wafting from the liquid within, tinged with a bitter trace of alcohol.

"Speech"