Blacktail Deer Plateau wendigo

Open for anyone! Perhaps someone Mordecai hasn't met, even? :)

The days were beginning to stretch out longer and longer, but nightfall still came readily. Mordecai knew there would come a time when even now, the darkness would be creased near the horizon with just a sliver of twilight. It wasn't too after past that now, he was willing to believe, though the stars had emerged from for their nightly display across the dark sky. He had climbed to one of the higher reaches within the plateau, only to find himself a nice perch.

It wasn't a cold night by any means, but rather pleasant, as the tail end of winter was beginning to give way to the possibility of spring. And it was a clear night, one prime for a little stargazing by a particular canine that could not remember all of the constellations, let alone the stories behind them. That was something his father had managed to recall, something he had listened to as a child. Though he was wont to admit to it, Mordecai knew the majority of his youth was behind him, sacrificed a long while ago to the road that had led him through a number of paths to the present.

Idly, as he lounged across the stony perch, he silently pondered what sleep would bring to him. Though tired, he wasn't about to nod off by any means. It was a pleasant sort of tired, one brought to him by none other than the travel and the later climb of the terrain. It was a peaceful sort, a lulling comfort that had brought his gaze skyward with nothing more than the silence of the wilderness around him.

crippled black phoenix — wendigo