Swiftcurrent Creek lost in space

@Constantine or @Durnehviir or really anyone because he's muchos muchos close.

The other side of the mountains didn't seem very different from anywhere else he'd recently been. There was some variety in elevation as he climbed down over the course of a few days, and then he encountered a series of booming waterfalls that kept his ears ringing long after he'd departed their range; by the time Larus stopped for a rest, he was slinking along a riverside with the mountain's shadows rolling across his flank. The cool air this brought was a welcome reprieve from the growing warmth of these past few days. It was still spring - but he wondered for how much longer.

This also brought him to another query: Wherever he was supposed to be, whoever he was supposed to be with (because Larus felt certain that there was someone he was missing), were they looking for him? For how many days now had he been cautiously examining every inch of the earth, every scent, every nook or cranny? And yet here he was, striding alongside this narrow bend in the river, feeling just as lost as before.

He sighed, and marched along. If anyone was hunting for him then there was little hope of being found. He had crossed too much territory between his waking at the dusty steppes and beyond - he'd crossed a whole mountain range, he'd -- wait, what was that? Larus didn't recognize the collection of stone and moss for what it once was, but he thought upon first glance it resembled a bear; it looked old, but not naturally forming aside from the dense greenery that coated it. He didn't know that the bear shape was an old grave - nor that his father had, at some point, crossed this same path and built it himself.

Larus stared at it for a few moments before carrying on, and only slowed his pace when he found something of more value - the scent of wolves, and they were all around him. Perhaps he had been too absorbed in his own mind to notice his trespassing, but now that he had, his tail tucked and he bayed an apologetic sound.