Bearclaw Valley c

UM YES PLZ

Ashlar slipped quietly through the territory, but as he walked, he hummed.  A slow, sad tune, something that comforted him though.  He'd quite liked the girl who had hunted the squirrels with him, and @Avicus' and @Snowskip's departures had removed two of the few friendships he shared here.  Merrick's company he found both terrifying and intriguing.  It was now the only real bond he had here save the man he had first followed.

He walked with less fear as the forest had grown familiar, and the faces within in inspired less fear now that he knew them to be Merrick's like.  The Great Bear, he thought silently.  The idea of it entranced the silver-gilded bard and he delighted in forming tunes around it's image.  This song was just a melody though, a song for a missing princess.

He hummed a low note, then upticked it into harmony.  It was beautiful but choked to silence as a dark shape lumbered before him, forcing Ashlar to a terrified crouch.  He looked on with wide and astonished rapture as the behemoth figure moved; he'd never seen anything like it.