Stone Circle rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

maybe @Greyback or @Valette? :)

it is an uncharacteristically warm day, and the steady drip of a nearby icicle serves as a thermometer. the huntress is sprawled across a flattened boulder in the midst of the forested part of the territory, mind turning as she thinks over the events of the past year. being back here offers an odd perspective, as she considers the way this pack has continued to endure, Valette as it's head, even as her own life has cycles through euphoric highs and breathless lows. she thinks most often of the fire, family lost, Aditya, ugly mistakes and most of all the desperate loss of her own children. but she remembers to those moments her little family had been at it's closest, and before then, too, when Morningside had been strong. it is those memories she has clung too, but she wonders now if she should let them go just as she attempts to relinquish her fixation on the ugly parts of the past. 

for it is just that, a past, and she has a niece she must safeguard, a pack both new and old she must support. her children and mate are lost to her, her parents, her pack, and all the rest of it. she will not allow what she has now to slip away too. 

sighing, she shifts, lifting her head from her paws and tracking the flight of a pair of ravens as they swing over the treetops.