Bearclaw Valley "—learn to use these things."

When he wedged himself in the doorway, the sun was beaming down and made it impossible for him to see his surroundings. As Glaukos stepped through to a patch of shadow his eyes began to adjust and it was as if the light-and-dark of it all coalesced in to the shape of the girl from earlier; she seemed curious of the space he'd found.

Glaukos shook the tension from his shoulders and felt some of the greenery which he'd caught there, fall free from the tangle of his coat. It was once a healer's cache. He couldn't remember who had worked there before his assignment as a boy, and barely could he piece together those memories of himself either; but he had known it was here, and finding it felt like a form of confirmation that Ursus had once inhabited the space at all.

He glances at the girl, noticing the strong scent of the boy all over her; no doubt they were victims of the season the same way he had been. He chose not to comment on that.