11-23-2015, 08:23 PM
She was not surprised to find herself alone when she awoke, just inside the Chamber borders. Lupei hadn't exactly seemed the type to be a guide - and what better way to get to know her new home, than on her own? So she rose and shook the dirt from her coat, and headed deeper into the Chamber. She was surprised that, after a time, the trees began to thin and give way into rockier land. She did not quite know why, but she had assumed the entire Chamber would be wooded; but, upon seeing the trees finally vanish and open land stretch before her, she could understand the name. It was mournfully beautiful, and she found her breath taken away momentarily by the somberness of it.
But, she found herself restless. Something about the ground made her uneasy. It felt like it was...thudding beneath her hooves, but as she looked around, there was not a soul to be found. It was steady, like a heartbeat, and she found herself wishing she were back in the forest with familiar ground beneath her hooves. She had already come this far, though, and there was no point in turning around now.
She found herself thinking of what used to be home. Perhaps it was the mournfulness of the mist, but she found herself reminiscing over what she no longer had, over the family she had lost and the lives she could've saved.
She was not unaccustomed to this.
She thought of them often, and for weeks at a time they would plague her. Their faces would taunt her in dreams, and she could not escape them. She could hear the scorn that she surely had left behind, and she knew she could never face them again - not that she would ever leave. Her shoulders squared, she faced her new home with a growing sense of determination, of resilience. She would not make the same mistakes here.
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