Qeya River thorn blood

THIS IS A RAID

@Senka @Ksura @Kaaya Ayad. this is also an opportunity for @Anselm & @Ilse to try an escape :o the purpose of this is to also sort out QR's fate/leadership

in the end, if he wanted red leaf or ghelan back, yikaas understood he must put down a place until the man recovered. he owed the caribou hunter a debt.

he had threatened the girl with a beating, speaking of his powers at tracking and discovery if she tried to leave. "watch him," he grunted of the injured, weakened man. raising his arm once as if to cuff her, yikaas stared hard at the pair and left them on the moraine.

the river was cold, its winding ways sweet to his thirst. and here was a pack with no leaders spraying scent upon the borderlands. he was hungry, but more than that, yikaas saw how this place was defensible, fed by coldness. ice. snow.  he wanted the long march. it must first have a head. he saw now how a lanzadoii man must adjust in this world.

yikaas crossed the borders and shouted for audience, challenging whoever still roamed the land to come to him and say why they should keep it. he was stronger. he was a hunter, a fierce warrior who could hold the river. he demanded that they come.