Great Bear Wilderness iglaaguruna ❈

@Nukilik. between the sentinels and deepwood weald, here.

steeling herself, the little snowduck had crept from her shelter and headed over moonspear's borders for the first time since arriving. the territory was large and there had been no reason to leave, but then arcturus had come to her. and now she found herself slipping off, shoulders wrapped with her prized ermine pelt, to hunt for the antler-blood of which she had spoken.

but once outside moonspear, kukutux found she had lost the old fear that once accompanied her travels. hydra's domain was safe, permanent, and the duck had found that small roots within her heart had been put down into the atmosphere of the packland. not yet home, but it had become what courtfall once promised to be.

and so kukutux went on and on, until the spires loomed small behind her, a darkened forest swallowing the girl. in the cold gloom, the shadows raced round, promising an odd view of a naked wood just beyond, but here she paused, too hesitant to go further beneath the sudden icy wash of realization of how distant moonspear was.