I say your name

random event If it was a monster, then it truly lived up to its name. Instead of finding the livestock mutilated, instead of finding Talys' flanks carved with little brother and the mare left to bleed out... ...there was only a blanket and an indent in the straw where it looked as if someone had indeed slept the night before. The animals were not riled, and in fact, if Rory paused enough for his senses to properly account for his surroundings, he'd smell the aroma of leather conditioner hanging sweetly in the air. Indeed, a few of the bridles and the harnesses looked newly polished. But Karlia was not there, nor was the answer of whether or not she had been real. Could monsters do this? And if they couldn't, had she then, wounded by her brother's dismissal of her, decided to leave?