Golden Glade then seal in our wonder to ferment

@Taktuq if you have time?

with new and unexplored lands came the relief of a dread antha hadn't known she'd carried until it was gone. she'd hated being so close to raven's watch, though she'd never truly thought it until now. this part of the teekon was foreign to her, and she was grateful for a new place to accompany her new beginning.

she was also quite determined to make it familiar to her. she remembered this forest from her walk with issorartuyok, but she'd been preoccupied with their conversation that day. this time antha wove through the trees with purpose, noting those few landmarks which seemed to be lasting features of the environment and simply observing those which would soon melt and crumble away with the weather. she wondered what it would look like here in the spring.

@Antha feel free to forward date as you'd like! Apologies for the wait, I'd love a thread with you! <3

Taktuq had never lived this far to the west and honestly? She found the change refreshing. As easy as she'd been able to slip into life at Duskfire, she'd never quite been able to shake the hesitancy in knowing they were within striking range of Bearclaw Valley. The wolves there remained something of a monster in Taktuq's imagination and she wasn't inclined to see if her imaginings of them were right. Some might've decided to pick a fight with the things that went bump in the night, but Tktuq was more than happy to leave those monsters behind.

Now, two mountains separated their new lands from the ones they had left and Taktuq felt her joy in the distance between them, so much so that her walk became a dance through the trees of the leaf-bare forest in the simple enjoyment of the briskness of the early morning and the repetitive calls of the late winter birds. A quiet song touched her lips, its tune certain and lifting through the last tendrils of fog, but its words concealed in the language she was sure only she knew how to speak.