Silver Moraine and they called him, "Lemon Boy"

Ears flick to catch the child's words above the crunch of snow beneath her paws, and it is with a great laugh that Nagruk agrees. "Stupid, yes, but is way things work." It's not like she had the power yet to change the mind of a Chieftain so tangled in the long march of his caribou, no matter how she wished.

A question then, a valid one, and Nagruk begins to understand. At the other end of the taiga there lies the ocean where Saatsine will witness the birth and expansion of their herds, but the trek is long, the opportunity still there for one of their clan to intercept. "I go with you a way to where river cuts land. Then you go alone." She means for the girl to make a choice, though her voice is firm.