Emberwood water keeper

above the fire-forest was a peak of stone over which more caribou still traveled. recalling the tactic he and ridgeback had once used against goats, he knew several animals could be felled at once from the sharp spires.

performing a slow loop of the woodland at sundown, sun eater kept his eye trained upon that place, tracing its granite points until a plan began to coalesce.

he chewed a strip of meat in contemplative silence, forelegs crossed carefully before him as the throbbing ache from the bruise went on.