Greatwater Lake And since birth I’ve been cursed with this curse to just curse

There was a lot going on in Mereo at any given time. Atreus felt removed from most of it. He kept his head down and just did what the Imperator asked of him. He trained. He scouted, sometimes with @Alstroemeria but mostly on his own. He even managed to find and track a deer.

The young doe led him into the foothills to the west. Atreus considered letting her go there but changed his mind and pursued her across a field dusted with snow, then past a great span of water. He watched her pause to take a drink, crouched among the winter grass, then loped after her when she continued westward.

He couldn’t be sure what triggered her but, very abruptly, the doe’s graceful trot turned into a gallop. Atreus drew up short as she bounded away toward a distant meadow, the sight of her upraised white tail giving him a flashback as she quickly disappeared.