Shadow Mountain you are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand

Base of Shadow Mountain near Wapun Meadow. Also backdated an indeterminate amount of time.

Ukko wakes up restless, his body stiff, but he makes a bigger effort to stretch everything out before he’s ready to get up and face the day. Even with more time, everything is still routine and he’s been unable to break it. If he could just stop and gives him a moment to reevaluate what he’s doing, he might have some answers. However, the stubborn bone in his body keeps him from it and he leaves his life in a limbo that is more frustrating than anything but currently the easiest option he has.

He peeks briefly into the den before he sets off with the intention to repeat the same day he has been. Checking the border, searching for breakfast, serving the woman that lied to him for two months to hook him in. He’d been prepared for this litter, he’d taken care of her when he needed to, and now none of it makes sense. She’d manipulated him into staying into her claim, under the guise of what he wanted, and then kept him in the dark before he was rudely awaken.

The pack deviates and it isn’t under he’s on the other side of Arrow Lake that his wandering has become aimless. He thinks to go north and say goodbye to Tavi, finally, but his paws carry him south.

Away.

It would be easy to just keep going. To travel along the base of the mountains, through the forest, and to continue further south until he can start a new life all over again.