Phoenix Maplewood Noahtakmiut

His laugh caught her by surprise, though she joined in with a light chortle of her own because it sounded so damn merry. Issorartuyok assured her that she was not at fault and seemed to take a very optimistic, pragmatic approach to the matter. Meerkat couldn't help but thrill just the tiniest bit at that random nickname: "glacier scout."

"I think I do," she replied honestly to his question. She remembered well the endless days of searching, how it had ended up affecting her much more severely than she'd realized in the thick of it. "I hope you find someplace to settle soon, although I'm guessing you aren't too concerned about winter?" she guessed, a playful light in her brown eyes.

She was momentarily tempted to coax him into considering Duskfire Glacier, though another thought struck her. "There are many more mountains what that one came from," she posited, referring to the claimed one near the glacier. "And I can actually think of two that you may want to look into, specifically."

Meerkat glanced around herself to discern her exact position, then looked back to Issorartuyok. "Head directly south from here and you'll run into a marsh. Hang a right and you'll find another wetland. Just past that is a small wood, then a mountain. A little northwest, there's another. I don't actually know if either one is particularly habitable but they might be worth checking out."