Into The Woods

[Ellory Pendergast]

September 19th, 1884

“Make sure to stick close to me, girls!” Ellory told the younger students as the four of them walked in the forest. Ellory’s duty for that afternoon would be to chaperone the three younger students into the woods. An easy enough task, surely. They had been warned against going off in the woods during their entire schooling career, but Ellory was an adult now and she doubted that they’d go that deep anyway. And she trusted her wards to behave themselves.

She still had her blackthorn wand ready in her hand, ready to use it as soon as a need arose.

@Alberta Blight
@Jamesina Mcintrye
@Delight Urquart

  

[Delight Urquart]

Normally, Delight might have been tempted to wander a little, but quite frankly she was borderline-terrified of being in the forest that the headmaster had been drilling into them for years was full of a thousand hideous ways to die. Centaurs might not have been that bad provided you didn’t annoy them, but what about werewolves and hags and vampires?

As it was, she did as she was told and stuck close behind the head girl, eyes flashing this way and that even as a squirrel broke a twig or a bird called in the distance.