know yourself

She wasn’t sure she liked Ashen now that they were eyeing the place she had called home for most of her life. She could handle change, but after that pack moved into her ancestral lands knowing the river would soon be swallowed up was all too much for her. So she skirted the borders against the islands. No matter how much she wanted to actually go in and see for herself, propriety, and likely her own skin, prevented her from swimming over.

From what she could see there was more than one island under Ashen control. If she squinted she could make out the land bridges between a few of them. There was so so much water, what did they need the river for? Aoede grumbled to herself. Disgruntled with where it looked her life, and her siblings were going. They were without much guidance these days and none of it felt right anymore. Like that big black island in the distance didn’t seem right. What she wouldn’t do to get a better look at that place.

The waves lapped at her dark toes as she paused on the shoreline, golden gaze peering intensely at the far off land as the sea breeze tousled her long twinkling fur.

"Aoede Regni"