Mount Apikuni it's not a problem if you're awesome at it.

Donovan’s leg isn’t feeling any better. Especially since he took his journey south of the mountains and had a wonderful little hunt with a most beautiful wolf by the name of Leigh. Worth it. Maybe. Yet he can’t sit still. The pain causes him to keep close to reality, to toughen himself up again. Or more than he previously was. He has to stay strong. Be one step ahead of the game at all times.

He’s making his way up a narrow trail cut into the side of yet another mountain. The rain is a constant nowadays. It was insanely annoying at first and fuck does. He still fucking hate it. He’s trying to get used to it though. That’s all he can do. 

Yet this day might have been a bad day to climb a steep mountain trail. Perhaps hiking is even more fun with the threat of death. Maybe everything is more fun with the threat of death. Maybe that’s just him though.

Minding his own business, he pads along the trail. Muscles beneath a thinned, stripped pelt, flex and ache. They rest when he stops abruptly. A rumbling noise making itself know you him. What the fuck? Is the only thing that goes through his mind when a small pebble comes bouncing down the slope comically. His eyes follow it all the way down. Then another. Then another. Oh shit. He looks up and they’re not pebbles anymore, they’re straight up boulders.

All in one moment his heart leaps into his throat and he’s straight up running. His misses fail him, for he’s already reached muscle failure and he struggles to climb onto a higher, safer surface. Only a few meters to the right from the other wolf he doesn’t even know is there, perhaps a bit lower down the mountain as well. His breath comes heavy and fast. He’s not a fast wolf whatsoever and he almost died trying to get up there in the time he did.

It’s silent once again. He sighs, black tongue panting wildly from his maw. He hears a voice then. His ears swivel and he’s flicking his head and eyes around until he finally sees the ashen wolf a little way up from him and furrows his brows in curiosity. 

“Hey!” He calls out to them. “Did you see that shit?”