Blacktail Deer Plateau Ullaaq

a shaman. yet another addition to her ever-growing list of titles, but this one felt different somehow. special. shaman, asperas repeated, testing the word, filing it away in her memory. she watched his gaze trail after hers, to the mountain she now called home.
ursus, the snakeling told him, pride in her voice. then it occurred to her, quite suddenly, that the bear-priest might take an interest in this issorartuyok of the north. something in his manner, the words he offered; he struck asperas as something... useful, perhaps. you come... a pause, for words were still slow in coming to the young cultspawn, a source of never-ending frustrations. to ursus?