Noctisardor Bypass salikkuktuk

The world moves on regardless of whatever cause he's pledged himself to. Kigipigak does not venture to the Watch after all.

He observes the distant eyelash-shapes of the ravens as they in turn watch him, listening as they call across the range, perhaps to herald his arrival; but he does not venture high among the peaks on the way in to the west nor when he returns to his new home, first the valley and then the bypass.

The scents of Mahler and the others has strengthened—the claim made by Legion has weakened considerably since he began his roaming—and rather than take the time to rest and recouperate he begins the first of many patrols; pausing only to relieve himself or roll within the collected scents left by Rivenwood.