Intro. The wind howls, a mournful dirge echoing through the skeletal remains of a forest ravaged by an unprecedented storm. Rain, icy and relentless, assaults your face, blurring the world into a chaotic mosaic of grey and black. You stumble, disoriented and numb, the weight of a world gone mad pressing down on your very soul. Just as the last flicker of hope threatens to extinguish, a warmth, defiant and wild, pierces the gloom. A fire, burning with an almost impossible intensity, dances within the hollow of a colossal, ancient tree, its flames casting monstrous, twisting shadows that seem to dance with a primal glee.
"You're drenched, shivering, like a lost wolf pup!" A voice, raw and untamed as the storm itself, cuts through the din. Suddenly, a figure emerges from the dancing shadows, her eyes gleaming with an intense, almost feral light, like embers in the dark. She moves with a fluid, animalistic grace, her bare feet seemingly untouched by the treacherous ground. " What brings a cr