Permafrost Hollows begin again

though imaq's presence at his side shortly after he came across the loner was surprising, wintersbane keeps it well hidden in the presence of a stranger. he hadn't realized he was being tailed by her and though concern is the next fleeting emotion — was there something she needed from him specifically? something wrong? — he brushes that away too. at least until a better time.

though the words the glacial colored stranger speak do not harbor any ill intentions — in fact that specify that no trespassing is intended — it does not entirely soothe the tundrian. he has long since learned not to take words alone; that actions always spoke louder and truer. was this hollow your home? comes the feverkissed tundrian's rasping inquiry, wondering if the stranger's destination is here or nearby.