The song the young woman had sung had carried across the land in a phantasmal song - an unseen voice that sang to anything that had been between where the pair had been until now. What a strange thing it would have been for any in between as it would seem the forest itself was singing ever so faintly if but only briefly too. The words, just as so, undoubtedly would have been foreign, with only the animal kind truly understanding them short of the woman herself as elves did not frequent any further than their domain without unimagined need. But the ghostly song came to a halt, not long after the noble animal ceased its manipulation of the places between nature's realm. As quickly as they slowed to reality, so too did the leviathan beast - curious as to why the soothing, gentle song ended.

It stopped as the woman did too, looking upon her from not more than an arm's length away. It lowered its head and listened, ears cupped toward even the most distant sounds of this forested place. It found nothing, at least not at first, but something was off; off enough to beg her to question while she knelt down in the grass, hands caressing the lush natural carpet. She seemed perplexed at first, stomping the earth firmly after she arose.

[i]"Something I have felt and heard..."[/i] The low, mighty voice rumbled softly as it drew up its head to look around, scanning the forest about them with a piercing gaze. Nose flaring, it drew in a great breath, but the girl rushed off before it could even begin to assess what it was that had ever so strangely shook air and earth in light.

Running as she was, she made her way to the more open portion of a clearing to come; a place where the grass was thicker, more plentiful. In any case, the mighty animal figure walked silently in spite of its scale among the trees, watching the blind figure hurry off quicker yet. Like the spirit it was, regardless of its fleshy, mortal form, it seemed to vanish amongst the natural camouflage of the woodland, careful to follow the steps Sabriye had left, but not so much as leaving a print of its paws.

It was not long before the figure of the sightless human 'witnessed' a strange creature of stone, its body of obsidian and glowing with unnatural firelight from its burning core. It stood protectively before a far, far smaller body, not close enough yet for either to be hedged out by the magical barrier that now divided the two. The small figure, dusted and clearly fatigued as she was - a young elven girl - seemed mesmerized and startled by being here in this clearing, but only for a moment. The three held a slight delay, long enough for the Lord of the Wild to make itself known from the other side of the clearing. It appeared from the woodland thick, shrouded only faintly now in the forest's folds.

It watched idly, making its shadowed outline known without saying or acting any further.

If there was going to be confrontation, it wanted whoever would be instigating to weight their decisions first. Any animal that size, greater than a martial steed and clearly of predatory keen was not to be trifled with. But it knew better already - the black elemental stood protectively and watchfully over the girl without any obvious harm directed toward her.

[@Ojo chan 42][@Mr Rage]