Moonspear angagixta ☘

she had not considered that meerkat might be unaccustomed to the steep paths of a mountain. she herself had lived first in courtfall, then moonspear. it was what she had known since arriving, though before she would have clamoured for flatter land also. 

intrigued by the girl's easy revelation of her home-life, she nodded at the question. "would you want help?" the duck asked softly. the slopes were challenge enough to those who had not been born to them; she would do what she might to help ease meerkat's time here. to toad amelia, kuktutux gave a rueful look. their talk of foxes must perhaps wait for another time. "if you allow me to come, i will bring the last summer's dried flowers, to put beneath them." it was how she appointed her own ulaq, believing good fragrances to be a great portion of the comfort that could be found at her hearth.

"have you seen a white fox before?" she murmured in the next, a question posed to both of the wolves in her clearing as springjade eyes glimmered with some unexplainable emotion.