karma police

"I couldn't get the pirate king to hand over his treasure map," he chuffed jokingly. "But rumor has it that all you've gotta do it look for some giant 'x'." He was confident that the leader would know the difference between fact and fiction as well as possessing the sense that he was not mocking but teasing.

Extended silence between them gave his memory just a bit more time to recollect additional details he'd noticed in the short duration of his first residency. "Oh!" he exclaimed after a moment of contemplation. "That mountain pass to the east of us...Porcupine Ridge I believe is what everyone calls it? There's a narrow pass that opens out into the wooded area of our territory. Koontz and I noticed a few different herds of mountain sheep using it to graze on the shrubbery before scaling back up into the safety of the rocks." Whether they hibernated/migrated/flew into space for winter was beyond him...but it seemed important to tell Hawkeye regardless of the season.

set by Emy