Raven's Watch Over snow by winter sown

Concurrent to Brillo's threads, so probably backdated a day or two?

He'd noticed @Brilliance had wandered off not terribly long after she actually had, and that was enough to make him finally cross the border and flee into the unknown.  Okay, not really flee, but he did run for a few hundred yards while trying to follow her trail just so the creepy as hell adults weren't gonna stalk him again.  Seriously that whole thing was weird and he didn't want to deal with them being dumb again.

Anyway.  He was on the track for a while then lost it under a pile of fresh snow and some recent other animal activity.  It wasn't like he was at all a good tracker, either -- his education was pretty lacking in many things as he'd been mostly educated at the College of Trial and Error.  In the end, Mali ended up going the complete opposite direction.  He did think ahead to try and keep some landmarks in mind so he'd be able to find his way back but at least for now, he'd be quite happy to be lost for a while.  Being lost meant that the dumb baby brigade wasn't going to be on his heels.  He could actually get some time for himself and not feel like the coven was staring him down trying to will him into nonexistence.  Besides, hopefully he'd be stumbling across his sister on the way and then they could just hang out and be awesome.

It was a little bit of a thrill wandering off into the unknown, even if things were a little miserable as far as the weather went -- but hey, he was nice and fluffy by this time of the year so he'd just deal with it and maybe try to find some shelter if he was still out and about when it got dark.  He still wasn't picking up any more scents of his sister (obviously) but this seemed like the logical direction to go in, so he was sure he'd run into her eventually.  At some point he'd crossed a mostly-frozen river, but now he was winding his way in towards the mountain's feet, where there seemed to be a little forested patch rather like willows, but with a different selection of trees.  Discerning that this place wasn't exactly super actively traveled, he found himself a nice somewhat clear patch at the base of a tree, flopping down to relax a bit and enjoy not having someone showing up to scold him over something stupid.