Roads Untraveled

Distance stretched between them now as they surveyed this land. Potentially, it could be everything they were looking for. She just needed to get to a higher vantage point to check things out. Heading further up, towards an outcropping, the weighty polar bear turned and looked. First, her eyes found the reddened Iqniq but moved on thereafter, brightening at the glimpse of thick green that hugged the foot of the spire.

The green was a thicket, a hollow, nestled in a seeming ring of mountains. It was as if the land had been untouched by the devastation that had been wrought elsewhere. Her bark to garner the Alpha's attention echoed in the quiet; "Get the fuck up here!" To others, it might have sounded like a command but in reality, there was the barest trace of excitement in her words. 

This could be it.