Mount Apikuni young & sick

"Likewise," Bones said politely, returning the smile with a breezy one of her own. "Bye, Sky," she added when the she-wolf excused herself back to Northstar Vale, the same place from which Xi'nuata hailed. The youth supposed she had two reasons to drop by there sometime.

Not yet ready to return to the creek—and certainly not prepared to talk to Fox about the subject—Bones adjusted herself in the grass and found herself staring at the scarred mountain again. Eventually, her eyes went glassy as her thoughts consumed her and she passed quite a bit of time just lying there, lost in thought.