Sabal could hardly sleep. For the first time in her life, Hyaline didn’t seem safe. However, she wasn’t going to be forced from her home – not when the safety of her family was in such a tenuous state.  And she certainly wasn’t going to abandon Mazikeen while she was still healing.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that what had happened to Mazikeen was only the beginning.  Her squid senses, as Maze called them, wouldn’t shut the hell up.  That is what lead her to seek out one of the entities that Gale, then still (mostly) of his own mind, had brought to them.  She wasn’t sure if the Cursed version of Gale had some bigger, nefarious purpose for bringing them here, but she knew she could do something in the meantime to protect her son, just in case.

Sabal was more maternal than perhaps even she was willing to admit. So in the early dawn hours, she left Chasm tucked away deep within the lake and made her way towards the surface just as the light of dawn began to creep over the mountains.

The tree burns rightly in the pre-dawn light, and she can see the shadows the flames paint on the statue not too far in the distance. The kelpie pulls herself from the lake, shifting into her equine form as she walks between the two, and turns her gaze to the sky where the stars are beginning to wink out as the sky continues to brighten.

Quietly, she speaks aloud, to the unseen entity protecting her home – the one who can help her son. “Please." she says, ignoring the pleading in her voice that makes her insides twist in a very uncomfy way.  "Something is happing in Hyaline, and I ask only for some degree of protection for my son.”