Blackfeather Woods amulet

Noiselessly, he turned to look at the stranger, whose dark blue eyes turned to black in the shaded enclave of trees.

Yes, the pale hunter obliged. He approached the other man with smooth strides, each shoulder blade cycling over his back with every step, one after the other. I have never known heat like this. I grew up near mountains.

Tavan Bogd was a place where, millions of years ago, tectonic activity had creased and splayed the crust of the earth with such violence as to rend acres of land into peaks and valleys. Glaciers scraped their massive bellies against the Earth in a speed measured by the passage of generations. 

How strange for a creature so sedate to have arisen from a site of such geological terror.