Raven's Watch ix tulugak

At the top of the Watch was a sprawling lake that fed down in to the territory proper. It had taken Kigipigak and the sister some time to find their way up to it and now, lingering at the water's edge, Kigipigak could not think to leave it.

Spires rose on either side; a slackened jaw with pooling saliva—the lake—and winding creeks leading off the cliffside, an array of drooling falls carving sheer drops in to the rock. The highest of these peaks were dusted in snow and Kigipigak wondered if he could climb to them. Were they an impossibliity or merely a difficulty?

The boy was not alone. He noted @Stjornuati's scent anchored among the pines. Overhead drifted the area's namesake scavengers lured close by the presence of the pale wolf, forming hungry halos as they spiraled closer.