Dawnlark Plains rhythm romancing

keeping mention of Indra vague but if she is with feel free to pop in!! <3

there that scent came again, laced with salt and sand. val's heart sung a moment as he scanned the meadows, half-expecting the sea to rise in his vision from the weeds. he recalled the ocean was noisy -- and no sound save larks and little birds broke over the spring grasses.

but that scent; it thumbed at him rudely, insistently, naggingly -- until at last val's gaze locked on a distant silhouette.

he froze. the distance distorted chacal's figure, and at first val's heart leapt in his throat as he thought the impossible: it was aventus, come to kill him for his betrayal to the bear.

rather than run, val was seized by a slow terror which broke when the figure's tail began to wag wildly. he tested the air again, wild and feral in his bearing. but that scent...

chacal?