@latebite asked 🜃 ❛ Something horrible out there in the woods, something really horrible. ❞
Her eyebrows jump — not like the words scare her, although to an outside observer that would perhaps be the sensible response. Young girl, alone and a stranger to this town, at the edge of those very woods.
Her mouth purses, fingers stuffing another handful of barberry into her bag. There are horrible things in the woods. The woods are for all of the wild and dark and true things which civil men wish to forget. She lives in the house of the oldest of them, and cannot forget to be grateful for it.
"Many things in the woods," she answers in an accent thick enough to saw through only with a knife much, much heavier than the one tucked into her belt. "Some must be horrible, áno?"