Moonsong Glacier embers

"I wish you luck when you seek him again," she nodded in agreement, touching her nose briefly to the forehead of Chakliux should he allow it. To isolate him as they would an elderly or sick elk - except this one's antlers were tattered and bleeding with the blood and pain of others. 

She swallowed a lump in her throat.

"Tell me, should I be worried?" For Ariadne? For Moonsong? She thought of her friends lying lifeless in the snow. "If there is anything I can do, Chakliux, I will do it."