Nova Peak Sittin' all alone,

sagtannet which had long seemed so silent now bore the scents of two new wolves. the man taikon and the woman asra. it was the latter who discovered mahler upon a small stone shelf that curved out from the mountain, cut off from the deeper part of the forest by a copse of loose-needled red spruce.
the man shifted from his star-gazing, idle and purposeless. "how does the night find you?" he asked of the snow-blazed woman, girl to his age, but he would not call asra such.