Qeya River pride

@Kigipigak/@Sakhmet! <3

the river was cold. in its frigidity was the source of its power, the loner found. he followed its stony borders for a long while. before him leapt hinds. lestan mayfair heard the splash of fish in the water and knew it to be a good sound.
he shivered. the land was rich despite his cold body. 
and wolves lived here. lestan stopped to investigate with cautious sniffing. the heavy scent of a family man was here. but there was a wife also, and he found hers to be more dominant.
children. and perhaps others, though he had ceased his search by now.
the man tilted back his fine head and called softly for an audience. his summer fur was bunched, the thinness doing nothing to protect him as he waited. and shivered.