Iktome Plains resurgence

While Matteo brimmed with newfound excitement, Iseul's calm demeanour brought him back to reality. Despite the vague familiarity of the water, everything here was very new and very different to the forests and rivers they had journeyed through before. Yet it was also a place they could start anew. Iseul was family and, though he would always carry fond memories of those he loved, he knew he must put them to rest in his heart somehow.

Distraction, it seemed, was his answer. A nudge from the older wolf and his gaze landed on a... strange creature. It had the legs of a spider but its body was all wrong. Nudging it gently with his nose, he marvelled that it's shell seemed to be made of rock. So this was a crab - he repeated the word in Iseul's language until it felt familiar. 

Watching it scuttle away, he turned to her, tail waving slowly. "Crabs are so... weird," he mused. "Is everything here so weird?" Perhaps even the wolves that lived here were strange.