Silvertip Mountain Daybreak

Hope you don't mind me popping in! I took it that Reiko is still quite hidden - just let me know if that assumption is incorrect (:

Nanook had spent the early hours in exploration of the lower land, gaining her bearings and growing in knowledge of the scents that filled her home. Now, as the sun crested midmorning, she departed from the borders and climbed her way to the mountain's higher reaches. The mark of Silvertip filled her nostrils, but did not hide the welcome smell of the grass that sprouted upon the mountainside. The world grew right again, and the sight of life gave Nanook ground to hold some hope that this famine would soon pass away.

The sun warmed her, and though she wished to keep moving, Nanook skirted to a patch of shade to cool herself before pressing on. She sunk to the dirt and splayed to her side, before she rolled to let the ground reach every inch of her. The quiet birdsong lulled her, and in the peace of the shade her thoughts drifted until a voice broke the air.

Nanook kicked to her paws. The words had not been directed at her, and after a beat she paced to peer around the edge of her rock until she spotted the grey shape of a wolf in the flowers and grass just beyond her, splayed in a pattern similar to what she had taken moments before. Her heartbeat pounded in her ears, but curiosity filled her, and she nosed forward in an attempt to weasel out this one's scent and match him to one she had stored in her memory.