[SEASONAL EVENT] belladonna

ASHE some people survive chaos, and that is how they grow,    Ashe padded through the trees, paws pressing softly into the earth still damp with morning dew. Golden eyes were turned intently ahead, ears flicking and following the sounds of birdsong, of rustling in branches. The air was fresh, clean, dappled sunlight warming a black coat. Deepfrost was done, the world thawed, and it seemed that the wolf had begun to thaw too.    Free time was a bizarrely new concept for the assassin, especially the amount it, but there were things beginning to slip into place. New routines, new habits, new feelings that didn’t include her ever-present fear. Fear had ruled her every step for fourteen years, and now? While one had not been willing or able to see her through the aftermath, another had until she was strong enough to do more than run from it all.    Today she breathed a bit easier as she followed the familiar scent trail that lead to her mother’s cabin. Kalt had Theea for the day, and they could reach each other at all times no matter where they were, she knew they were safe.. And so Ashe found herself nearly relaxed as she broke through the treeline, shifting to walk on two feet as she set electric eyes on the familiar shape of her mother - though it was perhaps beginning to change now.    That was a fact that she hadn’t quite processed yet: she was going to have a little sister or brother. She was elated, of course, but what that meant for her she wasn’t entirely sure of. Two years of putting together her family until it had become what it is now, and she was still getting used to that - she wasn’t sure what kind of older sibling she would make.    At  the moment she wasn’t processing that however. Ashe approached her mother on silent feet, a small smile tugging at the corners of her lips. "What are you planting?" the raven-haired girl said as she came to a stop a few feet from Vai, tilting her head down. She recognized a few from her lessons in the Guild, but she wasn’t exactly stellar when it came to anything to be used in cooking. "Do you want help?" and some people thrive in chaos because that is all they know.