Bearclaw Valley parasitic

Hope you don't mind me!

She did not know why she entered the Valley, but here she was, on trembling legs. Quaking, like the trees now did as the wind passed through their branches.

Death had lived here. But as she had made her way towards Stone Circle - compelled to return, after meeting Adlartok in the south, and sharing her memories with him - the Valley seemed an untouched land, devoid of wolf scent and any trace of the pack that had once lived here.

Curiosity would kill her; Taktuq found herself on the other side of the walls. Pacing through the shadows, wondering what had become of the monsters that had chased her away from Stone Circle, her family, and her home. 

They were gone.

She heard some smaller thing moving about. Crackling through the underbrush. Prey-like; and she felt an odd defiance overtake her - against her fear and the monsters that once lived here.

Taktuq turned her ears towards the noise and steadied herself.

These were not Ursus' hunting grounds anymore.