Raven's Watch of endless possibilities controlling 935

AW!

she did not immediately return to sapphique's claim. recalling how she'd doubled back twice on her own tracks the day she left sivaak, sobeille ranged south on an old caribou trail spilling out into blackwood.

she knew open plains stripped scent swiftly and therefore laid her tracks over the ruts left by many hooves; when at last she came upon a river she slipped into its thawing banks and tread its waters west, wincing at the winterbite splashing against her belly.

onwards, towards the ocean -- she could hear and scent the brine on the breeze by the time she found herself at raven's watch's northern egress. she waded the the river until it spat out into an alpine lake glittering still with ice.

recalling the malevolence in that singular eye, and knowing well sivaak's own hungering drive, sobeille crept up the mountain's stony face and turned west. it would be hours yet before the hammering in her heart softened, but knowing the muradoii was kept with child settled the skipping nerves within sobeille. she hoped sivaak heard her howl as she struggled to push the first child from her -- no, scratch that -- she hoped said child got stuck and sivaak died knowing wolves waited outside her door.

catching her breath on a ledge of granite, sobeille's tongue lolled as she turned her focus to murkwood in the distance.