Marshmallows

Ikigai, also free of her illness, had decided to venture away from Ashen lands for a time just to stretch her leg and try to forget some of the horrors that had taken part there. The pallid princess's face still wasn't fully healed from where the crystals had pushed through her skin, nor was the bite wound upon her leg that had been inflicted by some unknown attacker. Willa, Ikigai's snow white, antlered cat, padded along beside her mistress as the pair moved along the edge of the river. Things were getting back to normal, but they weren't fully there just yet. The land would heal, the wounds would turn into scars, but Ikigai had a feeling that the mental wounds would be long lasting for a lot of the wolves of the world.

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