Ode was a buck who'd been with a doe who was now very pregnant, and a mission - one that he'd never actually sought out, surprisingly. But Bleeding Heart just looked fragile. Even though she was pretty. He wanted it to go well for her. He could just do this in secret, right? And he was sure that those legendary kin existed. There had been tales before, yes, but the gossip about the obelisks - well, it just rang as true, didn't it?

So he darted from kin to kin, mostly because Ode wasn't really the 'tracker' sort. "Would you happen to know where I might find, say, an ascended kin?" he asked each one he passed. He had some advice, or magic, to secure. And he was willing, for once, to work for it.

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