Ouroboros Spine eclipticalis

AW; looking for healer or naturalist threads! ^^

Ivev had left the cave early in the morning, where the air pooled in frosty breaths about her lips. It was dark out, with the stars pressing tiny little pinholes into the velvet sky. She would stop occasionally and glance up, peering through the thin conifers. After a brief moment of gawking at the sky, she nodded to herself and returned to the quiet meanderings.

With dawn slowly perching on the western rim of the Spine, Ivev returned to the cave, having collected a small pile of similarly sized pebbles. They were a mix of russet brown and smooth gray, with flat surfaces that could be maneuvered easily with a paw. The night sky had already set and so she would have to wait till the next evening to align the pebbles, but for now Ivev could sit and warm her fur in the weak radiation of the winter sun.

The weather was beginning to heat up, and with it, the painful pressure in her wounded leg was beginning to ease. The wolf already knew that back joint would never straighten out properly, but Ivev expected by summer she would be able to walk with some semblance of normalcy again.