Duskfire Glacier Trouble in the Stepstones

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the sky split pale above the glacier’s crown, a sheet of light stretched thin across the peaks. faust stood still for a moment, the cold gnawing at the edges of his fur, before he turned from the hollow where he had last seen @Tikigak — belly low to the earth, preparing to dig her first den into the snow-soft cradle of the mountain.
he had not said much. didn’t need to. she was carving something into the stone now — a place to bear what would come. their future, brutal and certain.
his steps were quiet as he left her to it, broad paws pressed firm into frost, the scent of blood and thawed pine whispering from the cliffs. with each breath, the air sharpened in his lungs, filled with the silence of a place that would soon know war.
his path carved northward — to the edge, where darukaal’s shadow grew faint and strange scent had begun to stir. here, where the ice cut deepest and the wind sang with teeth, faust prowled. the kaan, alone with the thoughts that never spoke.
the snow had not yet been broken. but the wind carried something… unfamiliar.