Nimbus Summit rowenes

the strategy game is like...wolf chess basically LOL

perhaps a game of strategy and tactics? she asked, recalling the girl's aspirations. any warrior should know the basics, antha knew from her own time spent in training. even if they never grasped it, the knowledge was invaluable. most wolves were nothing if not willful by nature, and an ignorant willful soldier could often be more dangerous than the enemy.
or would you prefer to solve a puzzle? she'd moved some of tessa's cache of game pieces to a spot near where heda rested, anticipating the need for them after the girl had injured herself; when heda gave her answer, antha would leave and return shortly with a leaf-wrapped bundle.

if heda chose strategy, the game would consist of river stones in various colors and fragments of antlers stained with berries and crushed flowers to match. the puzzle would be a piece of pale grey bark stained in a similar manner in the rough image of a sunset over a hill, broken into several pieces so that one would need to painstakingly piece it together to see the image. antha explained the rules of the game heda chose and arranged it accordingly. then they would begin.