Moonspear some assembly required

moonspear seemed now that it had been woven into kukutux, but she still found herself possessing surprise at how easily the mountain and its trails came to her. along one such she led sialuk, into a small gully with ferns, and then at last to a ridge of moss-covered trunks, some fallen, where a flash of white appeared to her eye.

"awan ukuda," the snowbird whispered gently, drawing sialuk into the shadow of a sweetpine. there was not a great distance between they and the small figure, which paused in full light to begin its meal of a mouse, round black eyes bobbing to and fro as its tiny sharp teeth worked swiftly.