Phoenix Maplewood There'll be things you never asked her

@Tomkin perhaps before they were forced out by Morningside?

As Taqiqq fell from the sky, escaping her brother's reach once more, her stsa' wandered from the collection of others. The glacier loomed closer with every passing day but familiarizing herself with the routine of the Ateneq family meant she had also familiarized herself with its members. It was obvious to her now that nanuk had taken her in merely because they spoke the same language - if his main reason had not been her looks at least. She'd found kindness in the mothers Shivali and Tahani but what else was she to their family if not a ghost that trailed after them from place to place? Unsure of her place, the tundrian slipped away into the dawn with little notice. 

She moved stiffly, lacking her usual lupine grace in the face of the many injuries she'd sustained chasing away that intruder. Her leg throbbed with particular acuteness but the waif gritted her teeth and moved on willingly into the embrace of the dark forest. Tapeesa finally halted when she came across a wooded hill overlooking a lush valley bellow. 

As Siqiqniq rose, lightening the sky and casting a fiery golden hue to the underside of the few clouds present, he cast light on the flower-dotted meadow. Dew clung to the grass, dampening her pallid coat as she sat, watching a handful of deer graze on the greenery. Tupilaq had no way of catching one by herself but perhaps she'd bring some of the others back here to try their luck at a filling meal for once.