Northstar Vale uumak ☈

lost in thought, kukutux had made her way to a higher ridge when a low sound caused her a start; pale ears quivering, she turned to face the largest wolf she had ever seen.

not even her father had stood so ponderous. were she not already deathly pallid, the duck would have blanched. with a small gasp she quailed, the hide slipping from her shoulders and the small items she had so painstakingly gathered rolling headlong toward the man.

an exclamation; the girl swept after one stone in particular, but drew up as it came to rest near his broad paws, easily twice the size of her own, and forgetting herself, kukutux stared up at the behemoth, jadeglow eyes wide with terror.