Lost Creek Hollow for the line in my life

truthfully marten was pretty bummed that they were moving, but he was more bummed that merrick was hogging all the leg seats. :/ he travelled along, walking instead just to indra's right, carrying rupert in his mouth. sometimes the frog croaked, and it peed once or twice on his tongue. it was disgusting! and marten was not a fan of it... but... there was nothing to be done.

he just sucked it up. allowing the taste to linger along their journey, but made a screwed up face for roughly 20 minutes each time after it'd happened. he'd have a stern talking to rupert once they'd gotten wherever they were going.

and then they arrived. nunatuq seemed coy, or, something. marten didn't understand why she looked like that. or how mama knew the big grey man with all the scars. they were scary, marten thought, but indra had her fair share of surface level marks and so marten tried to think he was just like his mama. he seemed nice, after all. he spoke all big and tough. and. and. and... big. yeah. laurel didn't speak so big, but she still spoke. 

marten stayed quiet, toad in mouth, and listened to what would happen.