Porcupine Ridge my darkness is shining

the girl is instructed to return here. not-ava, now pakasqa, surveys the seat of her new kingdom, where her watchful eyes will mark every passing shadow as a hawk.

she shook out her ruff in affirmation, and wishing to show some level of skill for her new leader, motioned silently to a darkly shaded thicket. water glinted between spines of douglas fir and oak. what was that place?