Stone Circle Following The Stars

Nanook only waited long enough to see Kiran turn before she, too, crept off along her chosen route. The river gurgled in a lazy slush along her left, while the shore met the forest in a slope of leafless bushes to her right. The underbrush didn't provide as much cover as she would have liked, and she felt woefully exposed. She tucked lower and hoped her stony fur would camouflage with the twisting shadow the branches cast.

Soon enough she caught the slow movement of brown further inland, and Nanook slowed to a crawl and sought a point of ambush. Upon reaching an adequate spot where the branches parted wide enough to find her way through, she cast her attention uphill and scanned about for Kiran. The snowy stranger had the advantage on this one - the beaver turned its back to the forest, having begun a slow movement toward the water.