Stavanger Bay Vivisection

He could see the cliffs from here. Probably not the correct mountainside but for Raimo, having the vague outline of some distant mountain was enough to ease the pining in his heart.

Behind him sprawled more forest. There was a route to the beachfront winding among the trees, to where the soil became sand and then bare rock; in time he might learn of more, but he does not know yet if this will be home.

When the graying of the sky began to overwhelm his ability to see the mountains (casting them in cottoned edges, a gathering storm) he turned his back to them and began to prowl through the bay's tree line.