Ily was disgruntled.
At first, she had liked the Viridian Tangle, specifically because it was so hostile. Full of life, yes, but that was what made it so: plants growing so dense the wilderness was truly pathless, thorned and poisonous against the manifold beasts who would eat them, not to mention the more aggressive creatures willing to eat them—and any ketucari unlucky enough to cross their path, and inept enough to lose.
At first, she had enjoyed the sense...
