Whitebark Stream [m] would you love me if I ruled the world?

Dione had gathered her things from the bypass and left at dawn. She told no one she was going, and she was unsure that anybody had noticed.

With two elk hides draped over her pack and her most prized bones held tightly in her jaws, she came to the stream with a clear eagerness in her step. She spat out the bones, throwing her head up with a long howl that called for @Veteran to come meet her. He was the one she had chosen, the one she wanted.

They could stay here together until her season passed, guarantee that the children she delivered were his rather than a stranger's. Dione was eager, and while she would never say it.. grateful for her own fortune in their recent reunion.

Her eyes drifted to the nearby Duskfire Glacier. She wondered if it held anything more for her.