Hideaway Strath the path you take leaves a permanent mark

The announcement of Sovereign’s graduation and Adlartok’s promotion should have cheered young Turmeric’s heart, but instead, he found himself lost. Of course the successes of his packmates warmed him in a very real way. Or at least he knew they should have. But their celebration reminded him of his own shortcomings. He felt them, too, in the stiff pain that still stabbed between his ribs.

He had taken life slower since his failure in the inter pack hunt, keeping to himself more, finding himself falling behind others if he tried to keep up with them. Turmeric slipped away this morning to track down a plant he’d once been told might grow in these areas, but his thoughts were anything but singleminded as he limped through the hazy morning of the Strath.