Ocean's Breath Plateau tikalaak

The young man asked after her, asked after spring, and she smiled.

Yes. She did not state why, exactly, but she did speak a few moments later.

Where I am from, spring was dangerous. We lost many hunters to warm temperatures making the ice melt, to making the snow dangerous. Every season had its dangers, there. The mountain, forever looming over the head of its sole mountainwalker.

I look forward to a gentle spring.