The Heartwood aupaqtuq ⏜

the duck rested, jade-gaze fading beneath her eyelids.

sharp ears roused her to the nearby tread of another; the snowbird watched from her place beneath the trees as a pretty figure plodded through. there was a grim alertness clinging to the other; as the stranger drew closer to where kukutux had positioned herself, the duck caught sight of the odd black patches beneath the she-wolf's stare, the way that the light struck her spiced ruff.

slowly the moonwife cleared her throat, shifted slowly and deliberately so that she might too be seen.