The Sunspire whale rib

backdated to march 17th, just another travel thread for reference! @Meleeys @Daa'ka @Nutuyikruk @Cetseni @Yakona @Ts'okhun @Pikpaksriruk @Night Fire (@Sulukinak & @Other Shore mention as well for spar reasons!)

lanzadoii or muradoii alone was spoken by kusax̱asaa as their journey continued. he was often at the rear of their contingent, waving the others on ahead. when c'ede' was not with sivaak, he slung in carryskin from father's wounded shoulders, and it was to those tiny opening ears and eyes which his father whispered their lore and their hatred.

the saatsine were directed to walk in the icy streams and rivers until his own paws ached with the hurting cold. sun clan washed from moss and dirt, currents carrying to watery void their tracks, the bones of their kills, and their offal. to howl was not encouraged by the chieftain; he remained close to those who followed.

it tore at his heart to turn them from the caribou, to meander away from the herds to lofty precipice or stone recessings below clifflines.

brother's greenery treated him. kusax̱asaa had taken to identifying leaves as they went, wondering if he would be forced to become herb-healer to the sun clan all the same, for the ghost talker had disappeared.

perhaps it was as well. now only those who remained among the saatsine were truly caribou hunters, all except night fire. she kept his eye watchful.

camps were sporadic, watches shared.

at dawn, a stiff and aching kusax̱asaa murmured again that they would go on, around the foothills of a broad, great mountain, descending to flatlands glimpsed.