Something New

The violet Matriarch settled into a bed of soft grasses with a contented sigh as the night settled in around her and it got too late and dark to keep traveling. She had made good time so far on her trip back home from Fenmyre and if she had really wanted to she likely could have stopped in Ashen for the night, but instead she had kept going a bit farther past the allied pack and found herself in this peaceful slice of Boreas among a cluster of large willow trees. Laying within the branches of one of the draping trees, it nearly gave a good amount of privacy on its own with just the slight breeze causing the branches to sway a bit and occasionally give her small glimpses of the land around her. The safest option certainly would have been to stay within Ashen's borders for the night, but with as much as she had on her mind she didn't necessarily want to have to make small talk and socialize with Venom who undoubtedly would know her well enough to pick up on the fact that something was weighing on her. No, she would enjoy this moment of solitude before she got back to Elysium and had to bring up her concerns and plans with her children.

Stretched out comfortably on her side, Manea rested her head on her paws as she let her eyes close with another soft sigh. She had just finished a long day of travel so she was easily beginning to drift toward sleep until a sound beyond the curtain of leafy branches caught her attention and made her aqua gaze flicker open again. Lifting her head, she peered through the branches in the small gaps that the breeze brought her, trying to pick out what it was that she had heard. It was movement of some kind, but what or who it was she wasn't sure. She laid quiet and still for a bit while she waited to see if the source of the sound would give themselves away, continue on their way and leave her be, or if she was going to have to get up to deal with whatever was trying to bother her.

"Manea Mendacium"