Ankyra Sound thunderbird

She meant to head back and touch base with @Lane every few days, though Meerkat just kept scouting further and further from the glacier without turning back. She knew she must head back soon, lest they think she'd absconded or something. The last thing she wanted to do was abandon her pack in its time of need. With that said, the yearling struggled with the idea of going home, because it wasn't home anymore, was it? Everything about her once wonderful life with Duskfire Glacier was in uncertain turmoil.

The yearling let out a lusty sigh as she flopped to the ground near the edge of a sharp bluff, her forepaws just barely dangling over the edge. She watched the waves crashing against the base of the cliff for a while, the rhythmic pounding apparently lulling her to sleep. The next thing she knew, she started awake in the darkness, a waning crescent moon palely lighting the cold December night.

She stood there for a few minutes, waiting to wake up fully, and finally turned her toes back east. Meerkat began walking toward the distant glacier, headed in a straight line that led her from Blackbeak Bluff and along the edge of the sequoia forests wreathing the near side of Ankyra Sound. As she approached the river that snaked into Firefly Ravine, she glanced north toward Sapphique, which triggered a sudden recollection of the dream she'd had about @Njord earlier tonight.