Snowforest Taiga Some turn to dust or to gold

Set around SFT2/SFT3 area on the WIP map.

Saena's trek north was uneventful. Several days passed by with the only noteworthy developments being the prey she secured for herself. Despite her training as a hunter, Saena was forced to skip one breakfast and one lunch in favour of saving her energy after a crafty squirrel and hare both gave her the slip. Aside from those periods of growling hunger, there was nothing the yearling could complain about. The weather was fair for her entire journey.

She'd frolicked carelessly on the moraine and had even swept west along the plains, but nothing so far had struck her as "the place". As Saena'd told Reek and Wynter when they agreed to give her a chance as an Alpha, she would know it when she found it, and so far, she hadn't found it. She hadn't even come close. The north-west peak might have been promising if not for the very telltale signs that a wolf pack already lived there; Saena had smelled them over a mile from their border, and hadn't pushed her luck by getting any closer.

She was moving south, now, with Nova Peak's shadowed face at her back and the sun high overhead. Not far ahead, with sharp sides that were daunting but nowhere near unmanageable, stood another mountain, much shorter than the glacier to the east and Nova Peak to the north, but seemingly wider in a way. This was Saena's next destination. She intended to scale its sides and, using its height to her advantage, would determine where she should go next.