The Heartwood roof of the world

<3 present day is just fine by me!

Ignorant to her presence, the rawboned creature was intently set on slinking his way from one end of the wood to the next. With a cold shudder, his lengthy limbs carried him across the earth and into the trees; the green-eyed shadow followed behind him at a far enough distance that he could not detect her without purposeful searching. Tadec’s eyes swept his front, sniffing at the earth to pull the aroma of other travelers from the ground. The terrain had a strange sort of isolation that did not allow for many of the scents to linger for long. It was something that had left the coywolf feeling perturbed.
 
Pausing in his movement, the creature swung his head around and drew his ears so that they perked atop his crown. The burning embers of his gaze searched for lurking predators in the darkness of the wood but found nothing. With a soft sigh, the moonlighter pressed forward a few yards and stopped to inspect a seemingly abandoned hole for a rodent.