Sunspire Mountains and they will run you down, down 'til you go

Travel thread from Firefly Glen back to Swiftcurrent Creek. Tags for reference or to join. <3

The sun cast lower in the sky—his eyes grazing over the sky as it began to ebb in a faint glow of oncoming dusk. Autumn would soon give way to winter as the days length shortened, and he found himself quickening his pace, eyes scouring over the small band of wolves with him. “If we can go a little farther before we settle down for the night, it would be best,” he found himself muttering to both @Etienne and @Morwenna, though his eyes fell upon little @Caliste, her tiny legs weary with fatigue, and a gaze drifting back to Cygnet, knowing she should be resting with her injuries, rather than traveling.

He didn’t speak the reason that he did not want to settle here and now—@Muskrat had promised trouble with her glittering gem eyes at their last encounter, and he wasn’t entirely certain where they had settled on the mountains.

Still, he would take a pack of troublesome raiders over the potential war brewing in the desert lands, had they not taken the Sunspire home.

Dipping down, he would lift the exhausted form of Caliste into careful jaws—trading her weight every so often with Etienne, until he felt they were a decent distance from potential threat in the night. "Here," he murmured to them. Sheltered enough among evergreens and boulders, it would have to do for a quick night's rest.

The sky had long since faded to purple and nightshade—Caliste tucked within the arms of her uncle Etienne, as he pressed the packs of trades and belongings beneath a sanctuary of rocks to hide them.

Food divvied out to Caliste first, Cygnet and then to Morwenna, he allowed Etienne to pick at what was left of the dried meat they had packed before, the silence extended, his thoughts on the daughter he had to leave in the care of a pack he knew almost nothing about.