Nova Peak burn butcher burn

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others had come, dotting the plains below the mountain. skorpa did not care for it. even though ayovi's firelight had faded some time ago, he wanted to enjoy this time with her alone on their star-touched mountain.

he was reluctant then, to leave her warmth that morning, to sweep the musky bearskin around his shoulders and leave their den.

and that day he found a man, a wolf of black gradient. and he was not so indirect in his approach, hailing the stranger with a shout and hunched shoulders as he descended the snowline and came to stand close.

his eyes proclaimed this land as belonging to himself, but skorpa did not act in force.

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