Wapun Meadow walk softly in the garden

sorry but its been mentioned in prior threads that she's keeping her distance from Shivali and puppies regardless of who they travel with :) rolled an odd=success and even=injuries

Tupilaq grew weary under the mistrust found in the Ateneq sisters. With the addition of keeping distance from nanuk - after a day of puzzling over it she could only assume that Takiyok just didn't want her around Siarut - the wild girl grows even quieter and withdraws further into her shell. She longs for the periods between day and night - dawn and dusk - where she can escape for a time, if only to hunt and patrol. Tapeesa seeks the old familiarity of her gods, coming and going as she aids the family in their travel. The only thing she asks in return is to remain silently on the fringes of their attention; to trail behind in their shadow through foreign lands.

The berserker had split from their group early in the hours of the morning, when they had not been far from stopping to sleep for the day. Having caught the scent of something promising, tapeesa pads away from the rear of their group - where she's been careful to keep her silver gaze trained on a neutral point in the distance and away from Siarut or his sisters. The sun burns on her coat, surprisingly fierce even in the earliest hours of dawn. 

The trail proves to be rewarding despite the trip, leading her to a fat badger. Its back is turned to her as it digs in the moist earth for worms, not noticing the tundrian as she crept from the shadows at its back. Taqiqq's stsa' slinks to the creature on wary paws, peering at its striped pelt through the undergrowth with determination, praying fervently to her god as he  rose in the sky.

Siqiqniq lend strength to my limbs. Give me your glory so I might triumph. 

As the badger turned beady eyes on her, the spearwife launches herself at it. The badger, confused, snarls with fear and aggression as tapeesa charges through her cover of plants and seizes it by the throat. With surprisingly fast reflexes, the creature climbs halfway up her neck to bury sharp teeth in the sensitive folds of her ruff. She can feel the pierce of claws tearing her flesh, right near her ragged ears, and with a roar of anger for the badger - for she refuses any other sound of pain - she pins it to the ground and crushes its windpipe with finality. 

Tupilaq is gasping with effort, not to mention bloodied, and her jaws ache fiercely from her grip when its done. With little more than a heavy sigh, the waif takes the game in her jaws and begins to drag it back - not an easy task given its size. The berserker stops only long enough to clean her wounds, staunching their bleeding, with the hope that they will go unnoticed. 

Uki returns, dragging a carcass far too big for her, her legs aching from a night of travel. By far, she most wanted to escape into sleep's hold but was surprised to see the mother, Shivali, for once unaccompanied by the small forms of her pups. Tapeesa draws to a halt near the sister, setting the heavy weight of the badger on the ground. She chuffs softly, nudging the badger to the nursing mother as if to ask Would you like some?