Neverwinter Forest pinuksak

Making some assumptions about @Phox and @Maegi and the entire Blacktail thing; lemme know if I should change anything! This is open to anyone / whoever might hear him.

Kigipigak did not wait very long before beginning the hunt for @Sakhmet in earnest.

He had surveyed all of the plateau he could manage and thought of the surrounding territories, which soon took his entire focus. There were many places that he could begin to look; he wondered if she had gone off in search of the missing children and fallen victim to the same cat which had cut him to ribbons — which only brought a hateful edge to Kigipigak, fueling him to work faster, for longer periods.

Sakhmet's parents were busy. The return of a dark-pelted stranger had distracted them, so when Kigipigak thought to leave the plateau he did not tell them. He did not want them to worry; neither did he wish for the help of either the sad woman or her pitiful husband, knowing how they had failed their youngest and how painful they had made Sakhmet's life, with their absence. He would fix the situation himself as he could not trust them to do much beyond mourn and weep should they be aware.

In two days he had moved west along the valley's northern edge, following the mountains until he found a forest. Every so often he had called out for a sign, and this moment was no different: he raised his head and howled a long note of worry in to the wind. Then he waited and he paced among a copse of young trees along the eastern border of the woods, hoping to hear a returning call.

When nothing happened but the shudder of the trees beneath the graying sky, Kigipigak called again — adamant that someone should hear him, and hopeful that he would reunite with the girl he had somehow lost.