Ouroboros Spine crooked but upright

Would like a @Tonravik if she's back from her ventures, but this is pretty much open for anyone. :)

With weeks lost behind her on some winding and twisted trail, Echelon found herself glad to be returning to the familiarity of the Spine. Though she had no qualms with having been dispatched to check on and aid one of many Tartok branches scattered about, she felt her place was always better at the side of her aokkatti, not somewhere else. And if there was one thing that she could pinpoint about what had changed in the wilderness, it was the introduction of the heat. It was stifling in spite of the gradual build up to it. But it would not stop her.

Panting lightly as she had come over the borders, Echelon could not help but pause and rifle through the undergrowth. Things were in some state of disarray, perhaps from a trespasser or two, but for the most part she could sense that the Spine was just as strong as it had been. There was little doubt in her mind that the wolves beneath Tonravik would keep the pack whole and guarded, and there was little surprise that there hadn't been wolves around to test their doors and windows all the same. She proceeded onward, following the rutted trails of some long ago time, and began the descend towards the basin-like depths. Hopefully, she thought, it would be cooler there.

glass animals — toes