Golden Glade then seal in our wonder to ferment

@Antha feel free to forward date as you'd like! Apologies for the wait, I'd love a thread with you! <3

Taktuq had never lived this far to the west and honestly? She found the change refreshing. As easy as she'd been able to slip into life at Duskfire, she'd never quite been able to shake the hesitancy in knowing they were within striking range of Bearclaw Valley. The wolves there remained something of a monster in Taktuq's imagination and she wasn't inclined to see if her imaginings of them were right. Some might've decided to pick a fight with the things that went bump in the night, but Tktuq was more than happy to leave those monsters behind.

Now, two mountains separated their new lands from the ones they had left and Taktuq felt her joy in the distance between them, so much so that her walk became a dance through the trees of the leaf-bare forest in the simple enjoyment of the briskness of the early morning and the repetitive calls of the late winter birds. A quiet song touched her lips, its tune certain and lifting through the last tendrils of fog, but its words concealed in the language she was sure only she knew how to speak.