Mount Apikuni kayunnilik ⫇

click for exact location & distance to natigvik <3 fall hunting has begun!

(for visibility: @Stratos, @Inutsuk, @Skeetch, & @Mojag) for timeline's sake, this will be future dated to sept 20th.

the plan is to stay a month, make contact with other packs in the area, and have a mass hunt!

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this journey felt as though it were one of old.

sandulf had traveled ahead of moonglow. @Rodyn traded far away from their village.

moonglow had become its own people.

she comforted sivullik as they walked. "my spirit says he lives," she whispered in the words she had taught to many of their clan. "and we will spend the long snows in our own home."

the foothills of mount apikuni were bordered by a vibrant forest, and further, a wild-flowing stream. a cold breeze was carried over the wolves of moonglow as they stopped. kukutux put down her bundles of dried green and her wrap of meat.

"now," and her jadestone eyes were bright, "this will be our main camp. but in between this place and the village of our kin, we will have many other camps to cut meat and stack many hides." her eyes glowed toward @Samani. "my daughter. you will choose the second place." it was a great honour, and one that brought with it the responsibility of teaching others the ways of stripping a skin and chewing it to leather.

but it was the first public acknowledgment of her daughter as potential heir. she would not urge samani to take her smaller sisters. it was the sea-girl's chance to walk as woman in a new wilderness.

moonwoman looked to @Aiolos now. "i ask that sun man and sivullik go to form a guard-line for us here." a smile to shikoba, a blink to see if her son would come forward; if so, she would send him with the warriors.

"@Callyope, ariadne. we will look for a place where the village can sleep."

now each wolf had their roles, and moonwoman was warm with love as she looked at them all. "in a day's time we will walk to natigvik. and we will take in turns the teeth that must watch over this new camp."

she hoped that her kin would understand why they had not settled at the qeya first. but natigvik would be rich with moonglow hunters all the same.

kukutux chuffed. "hunting of the red leaf has begun. each time you take blood, offer a prayer to sedna for the life of that animal. this way, she will send hunting to our village when we have come back."