Qeya River what's the word, captain?

Something had been here.

Now it was gone. Prophet plucked through the stale remnants. Whatever village had been here in the earlier months had vanished.

But he imagines it was not famine that pushed them along. For herds still roamed the taiga and he had just heard of hunters here. If sickness had existed here, it had not reached the Rise.

So what is it?

A fleeting thought that he realized did not matter. @Avicus might be further relieved to know they did not contend for the taiga. He also had half a thought to drag @Lilia across the land with him — and she very well may have followed either way. Scout that she seemed to become.

Thoughts he held as he dug out the old remains of a den.