Tall mountains and orders lay infront of the hellion. Even from here, beyond the border of the notorious Tortuga lands she could still smell the sea. It called to her. She dug her claws into the damp earth, hearing a satisfying crinkle as her paws crushed a few fallen leaves. She looked ahead as the wind rustled the trees, as if they were waving goodbye to her. Hopefully it would be a long time before she saw this forest again. A home. A pack to belong to. Isn't this what every wolf wants? Her heart drummed faster just thinking about it. No matter. Even if she didn't get accepted to this clan there would be others. She shoved her excitement down and hid it with a grumpy frown as she looked on at the pristine mountains ahead of her.

A deep breath then a sigh. It was time to get to work. The red lady took her first step of many forward. She would have to make the perilous climb over the mountain before she would be at Tortuga's border. With grace and a bit of luck, Acantha made her way to the peak of the mountain. The journey spanned several days. After a scare at the begininning of her journey where she nearly slid off her foothold she decided to take this slow. Climbing mountains weren't her forté after all. The view at the top stole her breath away. The sun glistened off the distant ocean waves and the sandy white beaches were all too alluring. It took every inch of her being to keep herself from running down the mountain side. 

Even from her perch she knew that the tortuga territory was still some days away. She made her way down the mountain. It was a long trek to the fringes of the Tortuga border but she was here and she didn't dare step another foot forward. She knew better. She let out a howl, hoping anyone nearby would hear her, "I wish to join the clan of Tortuga!" She felt silly, yelling into a forest with seemingly nobody else around. But surely someone would come. No sensible clan would leave their borders unguarded.

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The sky was a brilliant blue and the grass was a brilliant green, and the little gray girl felt the soil under paws and decided that today was alright. 

The oceans roar was far away and Cassandra felt comforted by the soft grass, the wide open space where she could see anyone who approached. The soil beneath her feet was not sand or ice and it felt solid and stable. Whatever she'd had before and couldn't remember was definitely not as good as this. Gemini was, as it was for so many souls, an improvement. A place to go when your last life had been left behind somewhere terrible. 

She wandered through the fields and flowers, pausing to sniff at a rosebush before marching on. But even she could get thirsty, so she followed the grass to where it was greenest. She was looking for water without salt, still water, safe water. And the grass she found was very, very green. 

The fairy pools were bluer than should be real. The vibrancy of color in Gemini was enough to be disorienting in it's own way, like the contrast was turned up too high, the intensity too bright, too shiny. There was the sense that everywhere you went you were stepping on something that was alive or had been alive. That the land itself had a million opinions it was just dying to share. Cassandra hesitantly stuck her paw into the water. It was deeper than it looked, much deeper, and for a second she felt queasy. 

When she took a step back to decide, she felt herself bump into something soft - "Oof" She said as she fell to her rear. When she turned her head around, ears pinned, to see who she'd stumbled into, she half feared it was a ghost. Some soul wandered up from a grave somewhere to say hello to here. But no - it was just a shaggy little boy. "I'm.....really sorry. I didn't mean to..."

A late night stroll in the woods- wait was it night now? Perhaps early morning. It's hard to tell when you can't see the sun. Ah wait- the howling. There it is, so it must be night time. Lacuna had been ever slowly making her way towards the howling she had often heard the distance. She's heard tales of a civilized wolf society where she could go to learn more about the world. They have books, trinkets, merchants, and other things most ordinary skunks wouldn't have access to. The howling was close now- she had been travelling for several weeks into the heart of Nardir. 

She lowers her head to the leaves and keeps pushing her way forward through the underbrush. Her seeing can was strapped to her side by a piece of corded rope- though she didn't feel the need to use it as of right now. The forest was quiet once the howling died down. Her ears heard everything- the crunch of the leaves under her paws and her soft breath as she strode forward confidentially. The crickets and the odd toad hopping along its merry path were all familiar to her. She knew this forest well enough that she could predict where the next tree in front of her would be- to some it might look like witchcraft the way she snaked her lanky body around the obstacles in her path. However it wasn't magic but just years of practice.

Something was close. She raises her head to the sky and takes a sniff- a wolf? Some kind of canine was certainly approaching. It was hard to tell who they were or whether they were friendly but Lacuna was always in the business of thinking positively. She steps out of the bush she had been crouching under, "Hello there! Might I take a moment of your time?" She looks in the direction she believes the canine to be coming from. From the sound of it the creature should be just in front of her.