Duskfire Glacier they're all liars here

Developmental age: 2 months/4 human years. AW, maybe one of the healer types who might've been helping to treat Imaq/helping treat Siku's wounds? (@Lane @Eldritch)

Siku sat outside the caves, though not very far from the mouth of the communal denning area. It was only by Imaq's persistence -- insistent that they not coddle him but continue to give him a normal childhood after the incident with Makatza -- that they had moved from the whelping den to the rendezvous site and that he had been recently weaned. Liak had been a bit sullen with her at first, made even more grouchy by his various healing parts. 

This evening though, he was quiet and reserved as he lay bunched upon his legs for warmth -- not unlike the way a domestic cat might perch upon a counter. The fading rays of twilight still managed to reach between the trees and mountains, warm where they soaked into his spotted fur and damaged flesh. Soon enough one of his parents would come to fetch him, and he could be sure an adult or two milled somewhere nearby as was. 

Part of him was fearful of seeing Makazta again but he had not seen her since their fight. It hung heavy in the back of his mind even now but he had grown distracted with the first stars as they appeared in the lavender sky.