welcome home, little bird

Where the trees met the estuary is where Calliope had deemed home. From her position close to the shore, she could hear the lapping of waves and even see the spires of Hearthstone. Away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of Raider territory, she enjoyed her peace and quiet. Perhaps now though, it wouldn't be quiet. Leading the smaller girl to her sanctuary had the titan nervous. While she had shared many a night with various lovers, Calliope had never brought anyone back here. No one except her family knew she resided here and she wasn't even sure all of them actually knew the exact location.

The ground was not quite muddy here yet, more ravine than estuary. Birds milled around, pecking at sand and grass, eagerly looking for bugs before the cold began to sweep in. "Don't lollygag," Calliope snapped over her shoulder, fur bristling as she drew them closer to her carefully made abode. Just on the other side of a dune with a tree supporting the backside of dirt and sand, an opening large enough for Calliope to fit through appeared. Unless one was on the beach, no one would actually know it was there. Long, sweeping branches hung low, nearly touching the top of the entrance, easily hiding the beach and water. She had spent hours upon hours searching for the perfect location to hide away from the world, and now Finch would be the first to really see it.

Stopping just outside of the entrance, she looks down upon the girl she has spent the past few weeks with. Admittedly, Finch was growing on her, but she refused to let any softness show. Calliope would be anything but weak. "This is home," she lifts a paw, sweeping it in front of the entrance covered by a makeshift door made of pine and oak boughs. The dried leaves rustled in the salty breeze that always calmed her every worry. "The plains toward the northwest is where we keep livestock. The moor to the north is where some of the pack resides and our healers tend to their gardens. And the ravine that we walked through to get here is where the rest of the pack lives within the trees. You're free to explore and wander anywhere the Raiders are, but don't trust everyone you cross." A brow lifts, that silent warning clear that if Finch were to go alone, Calliope would not be able to protect her.

"Make sure you're back here by dusk every night or reap the consequences," her lips lift, a snarling smirk lining her pale lips as she steps closer to Finch, lowering her head down near the girl's ear. "Ready to make yourself at home?" Calliope whispers sickly sweet before letting out a chuckle and turning to open the branched entrance for Finch to enter through.

"speech"