Mount Apikuni first of the year

He nodded and left it at that. She seemed to pay little mind to whatever interaction she had held with them, and though Raheerah knew little of the interaction, he wondered if it had ended in disappointment as it had with he and his wards. Still it left a bad taste in his mouth, and irritation; he saw them as untrusting, paranoid. Perhaps even greedy, but how could selfishness warrant the rejection of a proven warrior and hunter, a protector? It was then that paranoia would win over, and he would have to place the blame on the creamy male that stood aside his Alpha, the one that had regarded them with skepticism. They would see soon enough the mistake they had made.

Raheerah twitched his ear and listened to her tale. He could not understand what would compel anybody to seek beauty, to go so far as to shatter the protection of ice, to endanger one's self to witness the water that shimmered below. The act itself held no reward for him, unless he were to fish in those waters, or quell his thirst. But he accepted it anyways with a nod. Another slow breath led to a low bubble in his chest, and Raheerah cast his gaze out to the mountain side that stretched above them. "Ii seek to encompasss the whole of the mountains in my gaaaze." He rumbled, gesturing with his nose towards the top of the mountain, his destination. "So that I maay find nestled in its breast, a paaradiiise."

He hadn't told her when they first met of his intentions here, or the ones he traveled with. They had shared few words. Had he asked her if she had a home? Raheerah's expression grew contemplative for a moment, but he dismissed it. Gaze returned to Xi'nuata, returning to that stoic, hardened grimace. "Doo yoou call any place hoome?"