Phaedra gave a little yelp as the great cat appeared between her and the undergrowth.  She stopped suddenly, standing stock still, as if that would protect her.  She was offering a prayer to her Goddess to help her, when the cat rubbed up against her.<br/><br/>She gave a shaky laugh, as it seemed the huge feline was friendly<em>‘A little too friendly’</em>she thought as his tail whipped across her throat and face.  She didn’t move as the cat moved away, but then as she saw him turn and look, for all the world his expression said “Come on then!” so gathering her pack up onto her shoulder, she followed with a great feeling sense of apprehension.<br/><br/><em>I really hope I’m doing the right thing following the tiger, but I don’t want to upset him, and he definitely seems to want me to go with him.</em>She hurried to keep up with him as he led her through the forest.<br/><br/>She was still enthralled by the grandeur of the magnificent trees, and from time to time she paused with a hand on a trunk, as if she was trying to communicate with the ancient redwoods.  She was thinking if only they could talk, and tell her of their lives, and the things they had seen in this forest. She was still enthralled by her surroundings when she began to realise she could hear a voice, and she could see the tiger up ahead sitting at the side of an elf with pure white hair.  She hesitated at the edge of the clearing, peeking out from behind the widest tree trunk she had ever seen.<br/>