Hoshor Plains obasan

set for yesterday 1.12.24 (lmk if timelines work for all) for @Ariadne!

upon crossing the mountains once more, the trajectory of chakliux and @Dutch carried them within nosecatch of the great gathering, now dissipated in slow portions. exclaiming over the mingled scent of every moon village with those not yet known, they turned for the plains.
there had several wolves rallied around he and dutch; chakliux had been pleased to see them all, but it was @Sialuk he wished, for the sake of dutch. it came to pass that a healing camp had been kept by moonglow; he helped the others to bring dutch there, relieved to know that his companion would be tended by more skilled people than he. (@Reverie @Reina @Amalia @Seal) 
and before he left, the seal hunter heard the moon woman telling to dutch that his mother was here, and that a sister to a man named valiant had returned. chakliux was glad to hear this, to know that he was leaving dutch in the care not only of healer but of family, and he was not so guilty to duck out from beneath the healing boughs.
his son must be here! he looked for his wives! his eyes did not yet cut @Raiyuk from among their number, but what caught at his attention now was the changing allure of many women here and there among the throng, and the good reek of the hunting which had been done.
across the river he saw her and his heart lurched, for not since kaluktuk had claimed her had he seen ariadne.
and he scarcely felt the frigid water on his ankles as he crossed, and with berrybright eyes he called out her name.