Moonspear long in tooth and soul

endure. 


all his life he had heard that word. a proud word; the word of his father. he had believed charon and amekaze would always endure — endure as the mountain had..

first they fell apart — and now the mountain.  

arcturus glanced to dirge as he mentioned the northern reach of their home. i was there when it happened. the male murmured, eyes sweeping involuntarily towards that distant summit. well, nearby. i met a wolf there, who spoke of “pale faces” and wore a thick band of something neither plant nor pelt around his neck. i knew not what to make of it — but the pass is gone, and whoever was in that valley likely dead.