She wanted to be brave and stronger. Something burned in her to try even though fear was making her stiff with every step she took further and further from Taviora’s safe borders. Or it could have been the cold… Soma knew her sister had snuck away again. Her mother had told her many times to not wander but it seemed she again had not completely headed their mother’s warning. It wasn’t just that though. Soma wanted to see what she saw and explore the lands as she had. Masque just seemed light-years ahead of her in everything. She was confident, brave, strong, and social too. She could do anything and Soma… well she stayed at home playing with leaves and fairies. She loved the fairies they were gentle and kind but Soma did want to see more… Already she was almost a year old and she barely made it out of her pack.

It was that that compelled her more so to follow her sister’s habits and drive herself into the free lands. The red-eyed girl wanted to see the world for herself too, despite her scars and the story of how she got them she just had to see it. Just once to see what it was like.

So far it was much like the forest she had been in with her family. The main difference was that it lacked the scent of the pack members around and the alphas and the trees were different, the scents were different. She thought about that for a moment looking up at the trees that were mostly ever green, some deadened looking deciduous ones truly standing out against the field of green and white. She could feel the fairies with her but they didn’t bring much for comfort as the wind blew about, it was her main sign that they were following her trying their best, but they didn’t save her mother that day. They could not keep her safe, she knew this the little nymphs did no such thing for her mother they day she and her sister were born and no matter how much her family loved them, trusted them, they couldn’t save her if something happened.

Right now though, she could only move stiffly through the snowy forest. Every part of her on edge and listening for anyone to come forward on the cold forest floor. If something was going to get her she certainly wasn’t going to be caught off guard. She would run as fast as she could, but currently it felt like the little girl was very much alone out in the middle of the forest.