Sawtooth Spire glazed eyes, empty hearts

*slinks in bc this is my fav territory heavy breathes*

The howl alerted Tonravik that her mate had perhaps found something interesting. She herself had been resuming her gamekeeping, scouting out herds and tracking them. The bison herd had not moved, and at present, she was on the strong trail of elk. The scat was recent, and they moved inward. Likely to one of the territories small, undiscovered valleys or meadows. There was much to learn about this place... but her mate had found something where he stood, and she was on the cusp of it. She would return here, she decided, another time. Tonravik did not fear them leaving the place that provided so much (from what she had observed so far).

While she intended to return to her cubs before doing anything else with her day, she didn't see the harm in joining her mate for an excursion. They had spent very little time one-on-one, given the demands of the cubs and her own need to acclimate with the pack as a whole again.

She threw her head up and howled herself. She was not too far from him that she would take long in her arrival. Tonravik picked her way through the path-yet-traveled, maneuvering easily enough through the terrain decorated in silver and green. She followed the Kurdjuark River and moved over the same stones he had. Tonravik paused upon one, looking into the water to see if she could scout any fish from here... and as fortune would have it, she could. But they seemed to flow only in one direction, with the odd, weak swimmer falling into the opposite end of the fork.

Sniffing at the earth, she followed his trail. And in due time, she arrived before him, looking at the very same thing he did. The power of the water was admirable... relentless, even, as it cut through the rock as it had. But, most of the stable rock it cut through was in one piece and untouched at all by the water. That in itself was something of a bridge, dry and safe. Tonravik moved alongside her mate, nosing him, before her gaze panned back to the rock-bridge.