Duskfire Glacier iqaluksiuq

sulukinak agreed with her reasoning, seeing it as a serious assertion of the other woman's capabilities and not something foolish, like a joke, as she did not know how to joke. keshka appeared strong from the start, it had been her speed which had shocked sulukinak the most; but she reasoned, she was a larger wolf and likely was more comfortable with this kind of prey, while sulukinak herself only knew what was scavenged or fished from the ice in the far-flung expanse of her first home.
was she overthinking? yes. did she know that? absolutely not.
when offered the chance to eat, sulukinak did not dally. she descends upon the pheasant in a manner that would have impressed a wolverine; cracking the neck, popping a wing free, tearing skin and causes a commotion of feathers and splintering, hollow bones.