Blackfoot Forest heartvein

It is a place where many find themselves. He answered. That did not affirm or deny who owned the forest, though. He did not consider himself in control of any place; only defensive of the area because of his current charge.

This way.

Their path forked. Glaukos could have gone one way towards the camp with Javelina, and urged the man another direction. It was a roundabout; they would find themselves among well-frosted trees and frozen, moss-hewn logs.

Closer to the forest floor, protected from snow, were frozen ferns and various late-to-rise root vegetables, with some wood fungus clinging to the underside of these logs, while further along there were patches of what might've been flowers, had the season been warmer.

Glaukos did not know if any of these things were of use, only that they were plentiful and far from his camp.