Essence of shade

Deluge had been warned that this was the last place Eden had been seen and to treat the area with caution. She hardly remembered the soft woman with the green that had almost spent more time nurturing them than her own mother had… Perhaps it was the experience that sent her running the first opportunity she had? After all, it wasn’t exactly like the children of Modesty and Gilgamesh were an easy bunch. She managed a snicker at the thought, dropping her nose to the ground as she snuffled her way through brittle brackish ferns that were browning with the coming chill that threatened to mark a year of life for the girl with the glowing coat.

There didn’t seem to be any lingering trail of blood or tufted fur, nothing that could really hint at what may or may not have taken place here at all. Not that she expected it after all this time but then again… huffing the earthy scent of ferns and leaf litter from her nose she lifted her head and canted it to the side. "Who’s’at?" There was a crunching somewhere behind her. Was it one of her brothers?