Moonspear the dwarven forge

Also paging @Hydra

Several weeks after her departure, Alya returned to the wilds -- and to Moonspear -- looking a little thinner than she'd been when she left, but otherwise no worse for wear. The lustre of her coat had been diminished by dust from the long journey, but her eyes were no less bright as she loped up to the lowest reaches of her homeland and tipped back her head to herald her arrival.

As she raced through the foothills, she sought out the scent of her beloved, who she had been far from for long enough. She remembered being separated from him on their first journey together, and thinking she would never see him again. She worried now, that he had perished or disappeared in her absence. Or that, like her parents, he would be dead as soon as she reached him.

"@Nikai!" she barked when she found his scent -- fresh and nearby!