Blacktail Deer Plateau shiver my sails

His Captain had charged him with both training to become a Gamekeeper—something like a Quartermaster back home, Kraken assumed—and meeting the rest of his pack mates. Fortunately, the juvenile didn't have a shy or nervous bone in his body and was also eager to please the leaders of his new crew. After they parted ways, the boy settled in to explore the plateau that was now his home. As he moved through the spring-green grasses, Kraken tried to memorize both the landscape and every scent he encountered. Until he crossed paths with a crew mate, the boy was intent on finding a body of water to fish from. He planned to fill their caches with the fat, lazy fish of spring as an immediate thanks for the shelter and protection of a crew.

Before he was lured to a water source by sound or scent, however, Kraken stumbled upon a badger nest. Having never encountered such a creature before, the boy was naive to their foul moods and vicious teeth... but they smelled more like prey than rival hunter, and so the juvenile began to dig at the entrance. Perhaps this would be more appreciated by the Captain, since Kraken had already said he knew how to fish. Catching whatever creature that inhabited the nest would prove he could become a great Gamekeeper.