Hallow

As you wander the misty woods, you feel like you're in danger. Maybe it's just the still quiet... the way your pawsteps echo through the trees, like you're the only one who exists here.

A deafening caw startles you out of your skin, and a raven swoops low overhead, coming to perch on a branch not far from the ground. It stares at you with black, beady eyes, head cocking this way and that.

"Hello, stranger," says a voice so close it may as well be right in your ear. The bird? No, don't be silly—turn around.

She is there.

"My, but you've wandered far," she says, her voice like trees rustling on a windy night. The steady drip of ichor from her eyes is as mesmerizing as it is horrifying. "Tell me, will anyone look for you here?"

Maybe it's better to not answer.

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Hallow is a mysterious and unpredictable wolf who showed up one day and never left. Miracle had predicted, some time prior, that a darkness would befall Pine Grove; it appears that she was right. Hallow claims to be a follower and child of Nyx, but what that means, she will not elaborate.

She's generally playful, happy to lean heavily into other's fear of her to get her kicks. Is that fear so unfounded, though?