Shadow Mountain i ain't gonna be cookin' all day

Whatever happiness Ukko managed to store in the few months he’d been taken care of has long since left his system. With the turn of the weather to colder and short days, something he’d once been used to, has taken much more out of him than he’d like to admit. Without Inari by his side anymore, and no real direction, he finds himself in places like this: the backyard of Ryujin. It isn’t the first time he’s returned and perhaps it won’t even be his last but if he knows Asterr, she’ll find him. He licks his lips and holds his head up, staring across the lake where the lair begins an incline. Most of the terrain is covered in snow with no hint that someone is on the opposite shore looking back.
 
He turns his head away, moving along the show of the lake as it leads further into the mountain range. The mountain on his left is mostly unfamiliar to him, having not explored much beyond the immediate surroundings of his former home, but it does not give him drive to expand it now.