Mount Apikuni first of the year

Raheerah spent little more time dwelling on living situations, and more on the situation at hand. He was unsure what he was trying to convince her of by combating her solitary ideals - it was unfair of him to argue with one's preferences when it had little effect, if at all, on his own. In the end, they would part ways living the same way they'd intended to live - she as a loner, and he in the company of the monk and the frail little cleric he protected, searching for their paradise, like he promised. Perhaps it was just a desire to seek something new. A change, or maybe he was just so blind to opportunities outside of his promise, he wished not to fathom those opportunities if they were to present themselves.

He rumbled, but felt amused at her response. Perhaps she was just as blind as he. More so, if she thought her Earth was ever kind. "The woorld is cruuuel. No plaace less so than aanywhere elllse." Raheerah scoffed a second time and tore his gaze away from her, that one molten eye peering up through the trees, to the peak of the mountain face, and then to the skies above. "The Eaarth serrves no juuurisdiction that monsters abiiide byy." The wolf added with a thunderous chortle. How easy it was for him to say; not quite for others to realize.

She spoke of her solitude and he looked back to her. Raheerah was beginning to suspect skepticism in her, and whatever idea she held of companionship, packs and the like. It was no wonder she didn't seem to have any friends, with an attitude like that. Then again, Raheerah was not particularly known for his outstandingly friendly demeanor - he had no right to judge her. "Solituude, too, is a moonster. A quiet onne." He answered off handedly, and rose to his paws again.

Stretching his legs, he was reminded of the small ache in his paw. If it persisted, much as he would dread to do so, he would see Lham - but for now, the beast would continue to neglect it. He shook out his heavy coat, preparing to continue his journey upward, but not without another pointed look towards Xi'nuata. "It is faarr too eaasy to be lost in themm. Monsters will consuume yoouu," He warned, both of the hypothetical monsters and the real ones that crawled the woods at night, then began to crack his lips into a devious sneer. "lest you befrieend the riight ooonnnes." Raheerah quipped darkly, and his remaining eye gleamed before he turned away from her.

With those parting words, he hoped to give her something to consider. His legs churned once more beneath him, pushing him forward, off towards the sheer cliffs above that would show him to the mountains and all that lie within them.

exit Raheerah!