Bearclaw Valley devotion

Father was quite the busy man, and Aventus quite the busy boy. Who could say whose fault it was that he didn’t know much about the bears his sire worshipped? It was certainly possible that Merrick had whispered words of the great beasts to his cubs and Aventus failed to listen attentively.

Averna offered a temptation in the form of the valley’s signature boulder. Aventus pulled his ears upward and blinked at her, doing his best to hide his interest behind a stoic mask, but failing. His tail stirred. How? he asked. In his experience, stones couldn't talk, but maybe it was cryptic Averna who held the key to their secret voices.