Blacktail Deer Plateau all the things yet to come are the things that have passed

and so she is alone again. she wonders, sometimes, if it is her fate to be lost and wandering. it seems all too quickly she becomes unmoored, and with age does not come the clarity she had so hoped for. but she knew courtfall, for all its beauty and kindness, could never be her home, and so she'd bid aurewen goodbye with the knowledge that she could not shepard her back towards her family as she had in the past. 

perhaps it is some grown-up surety, or only luck, but a day comes and goes and she finds herself at the base of the familiar plateau. was she really this close, all this while? clem hastens to pulls herself up the rock; she's chosen a poor place to ascend, and the lingering remnants of her illness coupled with the effects of the famine leave her breathless not halfway up. it hardly dissuades her, and a few harried moments later she reaches the plateau. breathless howl for @Erzulie leaves her muzzle, but her momentum does not stop,instead bringing her deeper into the territory as she searches for any trace of her mother, her siblings.