Bitterroot Valley parts developed in an unusual manner

@Seregrýn maybe? Otherwise AW.

He'd taken to following a few droppings he'd noticed earlier, distinctly rabbit, but it eludes him for a good majority of his tracking. It's like it is teasing him, leaving a beeline of a trail until he comes upon a den with what might have been a fresh scent. The new life sprouting around him, more significant than the last few days, might be enough to draw some of the smaller animals out of hiding. He lingers for a moment, nosing around before he abandons the site altogether. Gavriel picks up his head and peers across the valley, his mountain off in the distance, before he lowers his nose once more to the ground. 

There's a part of him that doesn't want to return to the territory until something is either dead in his stomach or dead in his mouth. He'd barely seen Gyda since he'd returned and part of it is because he has little to show for it. Even if he is disconnected from the life growing inside her, despite her letting him be apart of them, he worries not being able to support her might put a damper on his influence. Luckily, the scent comes back several yards away, and he follows it until the rabbit is finally in sight. Thinned out and famished from either traveling or the famine, finding somewhere to be safe, Gavriel lunges forward to give the creature a chase. 

He weaves back and forth as the hare darts off and, eventually, out of sight. His pace slows to a trot and he huffs his frustration before he circles back and makes his way home.