Gilded Bay Oceanside Reservation

He smiled at her comment that the mountain would make a better home than the beach. It was hard to make a comparison, at least for Floki, because they were so different and he loved attributes of each. He certainly enjoyed the vantage points that Moonspear offered, but it had been a challenge to learn to navigate its slopes carefully. On the other hand, he had a soft spot for the shore simply because he had been raised there, but it had its own set of dangers; it had been the sea's mighty waves that had washed Jorunn away, and the pup hadn't stood a chance.

Shaking his head to rid his mind of thoughts of his twin, he answered, "It was a big change. The hardest part was learning to climb up and down the mountainside without falling." But in time, his sea legs had given way to the hardy paws of a peak dweller, and now he could scale the cliffs with ease.