Silvertip Mountain aspersion

sorry for tagging u both five million times, this one is actually to respond GOSH <33

merrick had gone to ground following the scouting mission of his oldest son — and the formal expulsion of his youngest daughter from the annals of ursus.
he had measured. he had weighed. and he had not been available for the bruin-jaw's report.
after a long communion, merrick emerged. snow had begun to fall when he finished bringing the three heirlooms to the surface world.
they sat upon a wide strip of bark at his paws. 
evien's skull. the old pelvic bone. and the newly exhumed skull of astara.
whatever his son might reveal, merrick felt that the bear had started to step onward.
he tilted back his head and called for @Arielle and @Aventus to attend him outside the cave-mouth.