Belle huddled under the shelter of an outcropping of rock, as usual clutching a stout branch between her teeth. Thick dark clouds were churning across the sky, slowly blotting out the sun and leaving an eerie darkness in their wake. The darkness wasn't what disturbed her, the brightness of the sun often left her with splitting headaches if she remained outside for too long, she could see just as well, if not better in the darkness. It seemed to speak to a deeper part of herself, like responding to like although that thought was a bit too deep for her to contemplate for more than a moment. No, it was the curling tendrils of mist that gathered between the tree trunks that set her on edge. She had no way of knowing what could be hiding out there, she wasn't exactly afraid of the monsters she knew to be lurking in the woods, but it would make her mama sad if something happened to her. She didn't want to make Jessamine sad. Belle heard an owl hoot in the distance and the soft swoop of its wings, she gasped and scooted further back. If that was her mother's owl familiar that could mean Jessamine was home, or at the very least that she had found her missing. Not good at all, but she couldn't leave this spot to check until the fog cleared.
Teepee
