The Heartwood oxbalm

backdated to like oct 14, maybe quick tracking thread? <3

to keep from staring at @Ghelan, to keep himself from trying to separate what features belonged to red leaf and which to him, sun eater had turned to the game trails of the thick forest.

tapping the edge of a hard cloven track, the caribou man stooped over it. "come here." in lanzadoii. before ghelan's crimson eyes, sun eater sniffed the mark and tasted the earth.

moving forward in stealthy grace, the saatsine wolf halted, raised a sinewy forearm, and moved aside a juniper bough. there in the scattered autumn leaves was a pile of dung, cool but not cold. sun eater said nothing, only glanced at his son and moved on. it was beyond time that ghelan learned to track, learned all the ways of the people that apparently his mother had forsaken.