Dragoncrest Cliffs get haunted

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he'd lost the trail in the furious snows that fell from the heavens like divine retribution ...and in the heavy snows he lost @Arbiter. having woken from a nap in white-out conditions with nothing but the roar of snowfall and the crack of treelimbs in his ears he panicked and bolted. at first, he'd tried to find his mother but after coming to the shivering realization that he had to find shelter else he might freeze to death he switched his priorities. surely, they'd reunite and even if they didn't he thought he knew the way home ...it was relative because the conditions messed with his internal compass and whacked out his sense of smell. he was lost.

when it seemed like it'd slowed enough for him to venture out he crawled out into the powdery mess, frowning as it was still snowing heavily with no signs of slowing more than that. he abandons the bowed tree he'd taken shelter in, dispelling a chunk of snow that falls upon his back. he shakes his coat and trudges on to find a new, more durable shelter.

it occurs to vex as he wanders that beneath the snow there is a scent lingering upon the barks of the trees; and he reels back, putting distance so he is not quite so literally stepping on the perimeter of borders. with his back to them and the heavy snowfall clouding much of his vision, vex begins to head south ( though he has no idea that is the way he's heading in this mess ) and freezes when a howl cuts thru the eerie silence of the land awash in white.

for a moment, he thinks he imagined it but no, he couldn't have. it was for kaertok, it was too familiar, too close, too loud, too —

HAUNT!? he shouts, spinning to face the way he'd initially been going. why he doesn't howl for her, he doesn't know but his heart sprints in his chest with the hopes that he wasn't as lost as he'd first feared.