38 Chapter 38 - How fast can you run? (2/2)

And became

utterly

mute.

She disturbed not even a leaf as she moved, the wind finding another path and her breath inaudible. Had a human witnessed the change to nothingness, they would have certainly called it a spell. Ash grinned, there was more than magic to the world.

Sometimes a hundred years of training was all one needed.

[Elf calls - Intruder]

Her silent message was projected across every branch she touched every flitter of wind and every tree that watched her pass like a wisp in the night.

[Spirit respond - Intruder - captured spirits - anger]

The forest replied sleepily, no druid, elf or other such being having communicated with the forest in millennia. And yet they could feel the clumsy humans, having heard the cries of their kindred falling to the nasty axes for decades now. That anger had simmered, engorged, and now seemed ripe to be unleashed. Yet she frowned at the contents of the message, capturing spirits being a grave offence to any creature who had formed a connection with one.

[Elf offers - Elf aids spirit - spirit reveals another elf?]

Catelyn was a goddess, not an elf, but Ash doubted the trees would understand that.

[Agreed - aid- thanks]

The forest left her mind, and the trees began to rattle and quake. A forest awakening from its slumber was both a great and terrible thing, but even though this was overkill for a few humans, the awakened forest would become a great obstacle for those humans that followed.

A living wall between her beloved and her hunters.

But the forest would take some time to bring it's wraith to bare, time the enemy could use to prevail. Yet they had no idea that they had invoked the fury of a far more threatening foe.

For the first time since dying, Ash of the Silent Prison swore her war whispers in her heart and began the hunt. Unless these humans were something, special like the Templar of the Cathedral that had killed her, the humans would never know she was there until they were dead.

A shame she didn't have her bow, or else she would have been able to end them even more effectively.