we heal with love,

It was going to be a day of firsts, it seemed. Not only did Alysanne get to the land she had been hoping to get to (without getting lost once!) but she also did not feel the usual tug that the Threshold gave her. There was no desire to leave Helovia this time, no wanderlust filled her thoughts. Normally she felt some sort of temptation but for now - almost everyone she loved as in the same place for the first time. Only her son was missing and she would have a better chance of seeing him again if she stayed put instead of going in search of him. Although she had wanted to get out of the Edge and stretch her legs she wasn’t thinking about leaving that herd at the moment.

Besides, someone with a level head needed to stick around and keep an eye on Tembovu.

Hemlock, her ever-present owl-shadow was in the middle of pointing out just how very much she had not been level headed lately, when they stumbled quite suddenly on someone else. Two someones. “Oh!” Like, embarrassingly suddenly. All of a sudden there they were in the twilight forest, just a few lengths away. She clearly had not been paying attention or she would have seen him but luckily she had looked up before she had ran into the striped stallion. She quickly came to a stop, trying her best to replace that surprise with a graceful expression as she looked between the two. “Good evening, I’m Alysanne.”

And there she faltered, a brief flicker of uncertainty in her emerald eyes, likely shattering any impression of grace she had been trying to muster. The Threshold was a strange place, you could never truly be certain whether those in this forest were recruiters, fresh arrivals, or simply someone looking for a home. Welcoming them to Helovia without so much as a hint of which category at which they belonged to did not make much sense to Alysanne. But this uncertainty wasn’t likely giving her a very good first impression so she was quick to cover up that moment with a smile - her gaze warm in the chill of a Frostfall evening. “Sorry about that, I was just looking for some company for the evening.” There was an unspoken question about whether she would be welcome with the pair - neither of whom were familiar to her. It would certainly be no harm if she wasn't, but it seemed impolite to stumble into the pair without so much as an attempt.

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