Blacktail Deer Plateau one will rise who is too evil

for @Blue Willow

reestablishing himself in the plateau's wooded lands was not difficult. his den lay stale, the flowers he had planted outside long since dead. but in the darkness there lingered the faintest trace of peregrine's scent; it struck lasher headily and left him reeling with grief and despair, resentment toward fox resurfacing with a vengeance.

he would not stay here, he decided. a new shelter must be sought for his own sanity, and so taltos set off into the woodland that morn. his mind was not given over to the hunt, however -- he could not shake thoughts of the panther -- and so he traveled half-lapsed into his own psyche, recalling every blessed moment they had spent together, to the agony of his rent soul.