Moonspear on the steel breeze

She had considered the bears at agonizing length and she felt torn on how to handle it, exactly. There was appeal in a concrete plan of action (her conversation with Nishu came to mind with this), but the fact that it would always stand on the unsteady foundation of so many unknowns would bother her endlessly. "Last I knew, holing up high in the mountains, hibernating." Amekaze's ears angled back and her expression did harden. "If they go undisturbed until then, we can expect them to wake as soon as the spring thaws.. or at least once plants start to go green again." The finer details of bear hibernation was not well understood so she did not know what exactly signaled the end of it, or if it was even one event over another. She only knew it was something they did, not that it had stages or was as variable as the seasons themselves. Her best guess was that resources played a role. "I am not yet sure if we can use that to our advantage somehow, or if their hunger will make them more dangerous." Bears were far from her area of expertise -- none had ever bothered them on the Sunspire, so she was relying on learning in motion.