Moonspear and all the people in a dream wait for the machine

@Vela

following his indoctrination to the forest, iliksis had immediately departed. he spent several days canvassing the meridian of the valley, once even revisiting the spot he had defiled anatha. iliksis treated his observance of the wretched scene like a vigil; tenderly he reorganized brush, smoothened out the ridges of snow, even nosed some leaves from their captured spot in the deep gouges of the eath. once, he had even laid in the very spot anatha had cowered, filling out every inch of her impression in the snow with a satisfied and low growl. he found such rituals fulfilling, even empowering -- and with his lust temporarily slaked he set out to the relative unknowns of the eastern valley.

iliksis became aware of a pack's territory along the eastern brim of stone. curious but not willing to expose himself, he traveled along the obscured heather with his dull hungry eyes looking in.