Qeya River arjuni-akt-i

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The assertion made by @Nyra that there was sickness spreading throughout the wilds, while true, had not registered for Kigipigak as a direct threat until he took notice of the roving caribou of the northlands. While he had been patrolling between the camps he had discovered the trail of some such creatures: a family of caribou that were six strong, with more young than adult, splintered from the collective.

The healthiest among them hiked ahead at quite the range. Kigipigak held back on the urge to give chase immediately; his goal was to find them, track them, and then report back to @Lótë or @Kukutux, so that something could be arranged with those of Duskfire. The family was moving westward through the deep woods, towards the glacier.

Kigipigak was not as efficient on this terrain because he did not know it. When he smelled water in the air he thought it was only the glacier and went on moving, albeit too quickly, and nearly plunged off of a steep hill in to the nearby river. There he was forced to gather his bearings; but also, it was there he spotted something very strange.

A pale creature with thin limbs, a crooked neck, and red-rimmed eyes. It looked tall but stooped, as if it were very old, but its white crown was small and did not look the same as its larger, healthier herd-mates; the ones that had rushed off upon first smelling Kigipigak on approach.

He studied this strange thing and sniffed the air, unnerved by the look of it.