Moonsong Glacier hydrurga

maybe @Ulloriaq?

sulukinak had found a blood trail among the easterly trees and followed it.

it was a garish streak upon the ice and formed a bright trail across the grove and she traced it with her full attention earthbound, and when it swept suddenly up a tree she was at a loss. the scent of blood had been a fascination to her until this point and when she saw how the red faded at the base of this tree she was at a loss.

she rounded the base. her steps skirted another section of forest where the earth had been partially disturbed and there was another scent there but she didn't recognize it, so she turned from that and backtracked to where the red was strongest and went again and again in different directions; but each time she was led to this one tree, where the blood upon the earth terminated.

finally she looked at the tree itself and rose up on her hind legs and braced there awkwardly, seeing at last a streak of purple-red leading up the trunk that was out of her reach. stretching as much as she could sulukinak thought she'd finally found something interesting, something she could hunt with her long angular body and was immediately frustrated when she could not quite touch it for further investigation.

as she dropped back down to the earth she gave a chuff and glared at one shadow or another, and then back the way she had come, but did not move; and something above her shifted in the tree.