A certain winter deity jumped soundlessly from branch to branch to watch Germaine, doing her best to not cause too much disruption to the fragile leaves. She crouched on a branch a bit ahead of Germaine, looking up to the sky and then around the area.

She felt the need to secretly accompany Germaine, just in case something happened to her. Maybe Echo didn't have any memories but a few of Germaine, but the feeling remained. She had been doing this for a while.

The branches and leaves rustled, the wind blowing a bit harder.

Echo froze in place, staring at Germaine. She wasn't sure how the lady would react to seeing her alive, so Echo wasn't yet going to willingly let herself be seen.

Echo watched, then giving Germaine time to go past her while she thought of which tree to jump to next.

Echo silently jumped over to the next tree, landing on a branch with ease.

A light drizzle of rain started to come, which made Echo a bit nervous.

Echo was nervous sweating, holding her breath.

The rainfall comes a bit more harder, but not by much.

Echo didn't mice yet and continue to watch Germaine.

Echo moved to the next tree, snapping a branch in the process. She nearly gasped.

Echo didn't reply, she just watched Germaine.

Echo, in a panic, turned invisible and climbed higher into the tree, rustling the leaves more on accident. It wasn't helping that the tree bark was getting harder to get a grip on from the rain.

Echo completely stopped, standing on a branch and peering down at Germaine. Echo didn't know what to do, so she just stood still.

Echo was still invisible, but her nervousness was leaving some more frost than before on the leaves and bark around her. Seemed like she was still learning to control her ice magic.

Echo moved to a different branch, a lot more careful to not move the leaves in the process.

(Ah, yes, Echo, the master of hiding in trees and not knowing how to do things)

Echo considered it, but then remembered that it wouldn't be too good of an idea. She tried reaching up to a higher branch, not noticing the branch she was on was starting to break.

The branch Echo was standing on snapped, falling to the ground some feet away from Germaine. Echo had grabbed onto the branch above her, but was having a hard time pulling herself up. Echo was stuck.

This calls for some more panic.

Germaine could probably see a slight shadow swinging back and forth.

Echo was swinging herself back and forth, preparing herself to grab onto a tree branch over. She let go, grabbed the next tree branch, then was falling.

Looks like Echo miscalculated and grabbed a weak branch, which in return broke from her weight.

Echo, in surprise, let out a yelp and became visible as she fell.