Qeya River arjuni-akt-i

Kigipigak was given the go-ahead, and so he moved.

The river wound through the earth to the southeast of the glacier village, but as it went it carried the frigid melt of the ice there, feeding the hillside where lupines grew. Even with the snow scattered among the trees Kigipigak could see them. There were animal trails throughout them from the caribou, which had come and trampled during their escape from the path of the wolves.

All but this pale creature.

He followed it, keeping to the hillside, and came to the shallows that Lane described. He looked to her and motioned for her to go one direction while he moved closer to the water's edge, then began to move in pursuit of the caribou. The white thing was unaffected by the presence of the wolves; it did not seem to be aware.