Blacktail Deer Plateau frozen in timeless aura, a catalyst of colors

@Blue Willow <3 She's waited a long while for this!

Day after day, there was the same grey emptiness. Faces came and went, questing eyes searched the vacant caverns of his own while lips moved, speaking things that went unheard. Within him, winter had fallen upon the landscape of his consciousness and trapped him in frozen, suspended silence, a living death. Some distant part of him recognized those faces, heard those words, and tore at the walls of his inner prison as he howled and screamed to be heard. But of this, nothing showed on the exterior. For his companions, there was only a blank, thousand-yard stare and slack-jawed silence.

Yet today…something felt different today. The sun was too bright -- for someone had made him comfortable outside of a den somewhere, it seemed -- and it made his eyes water. His lip twitched in mild annoyance and discomfort, an ear flicked, and he blinked...