Blacktail Deer Plateau Hide Away

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Nanook had chosen the Plateau as her temporary home. The stale scent of pack life still ghosted the land and busied her mind with stories and theories of the life once lived here. She liked to imagine there were pups, and a mother and father who stuck together instead of tearing away to two different worlds. The thoughts made her wonder if maybe another had come across Bearclaw Valley and made-believe the same things about her broken family. Yet Nanook found that the surreality of this only soured her fantasy here. After all, nothing good could have taken place if it led to a land to being so thoroughly abandoned.

She'd stolen out of the refuge of the woods that day to attempt another hunt, with what little skill she had managed to accumulate from sheer desperation to survive. There were times Nanook wished her drive to learn had risen with Desna's, but her hunt had only been for her father and Xan back then, and not for anything that would prove to quell the rumble in her stomach now.

For a while, Nanook trotted in undisturbed solitude, her only company the birdsong and her thoughts, until the movement of something dark blurred through the Plateau's spring grass. The sight made her pause, and she wondered if the dark man had returned here. Brief consideration pushed Nanook to continue in a wide girth around the other until she could find herself downwind and able to assess this wolf further before choosing her method of avoidance.