Sunspire Mountains Homeward Bound

Mountains had always been in the background and Sarah had never paid much attention to them. Up until that one fateful day, when she happened to be hunting close enough to the Sunspire range to hear the sweet voice of temptation and promise. She listened, while her eyes carefully traced the outline of the cliffs, observed scarce greenery, the winding, rocky paths that led upwards and the distant, snow covered peaks hiding behind thick clouds and teasing the onlooker, through the cover. 

Then with a determination of a person, who has planned to do this all along, she began to climb. Two days down the road - Sarah was still walking the labyrinth of paths, knowing well that she was hopelessly lost, but surprisingly not feeling very worried about it. Then again there was not much self-preservation instinct left in her, even if she had managed to piece her life together in the past months and found few little reasons to hang on in this world for a while. Danger did not scare her, but hunger was good at reminding her that there were still needs she needed to fulfill, even if she did not fear death. 

Few lemings could scarcely satisfy her hunger, however, something bigger, black-and-white and moving caught her eyes and she drew closer. Much to her disappointment it turned out to be yet another useless brat. For a moment there her practical mind toyed with the idea of having this monkey for lunch, but she kicked that idea hard and it crawled back in the dark recesses of her mind, wailing and weeping. The kid's mom was probably around somewhere, but Sarah did have some concerns about a puppy being alone in such high altitude. "Shouldn't you be playing on a safer turf?" she asked, approaching slowly and not expecting any sensible answer.