Oh, but she is not alone.

No-one is ever alone.  There are the creeping bugs, skittering back and forth between the cracks in wood and earth, in numbers beyond measure.  There are the trees, ancient and powerful and [i]alive[/i].  And there are the darker things, the spirits and ghouls that stalk the corners of this reality, hunting whatever unfortunate prey catches their eye.  

This damsel is in good company among the first two.  Bugs and trees are passive creatures, going about their lives without interfering to a large degree in the affairs of others.  But spirits have no such manners.  Unlike the rest of nature, they exist purely to prey on living things, to leech away the souls and belief of their victims to further fuel their own power.  Hardly pleasant company at all- and the one that now stalked these woods was perhaps the worst among them.

The first sign of trouble comes with a quiet hum, carried on the twisting breeze.  The voice of a woman, sounding out a slow, wordless tune, a little lullaby she sings to herself in her moments of boredom.

Then footsteps, and the rustling of fallen leaves as someone steps through them, slowly and deliberately.  The wind should be dying down by now, but instead it seems to pick up, rushing faster and faster as it sends small leaves fluttering about every which way. A herald, for that which is coming.

She appears suddenly, stepping out of a shadow into full view of Hisame, as if she'd been standing there the entire time.  A woman, dark-haired and elegant, in a dark dress that shifts and twists like smoke.  Her eyes are closed, but only for a moment.

When they open, they're looking straight at the other young woman, leaned against a tree.  These are dark eyes, predatory ones. The newcomer's expression, coldly indifferent but a moment ago, shifts into a slight smile, that's somehow even colder.

"Well oh well, what have we stumbled upon?"  Procella's voice is smooth, melodic, almost musical in its tone.  "A poor lost lady, far away from home?"  The leaves [i]crunch[/i] under her bare feet as she steps forwards, only a few meters away from Hisame.