Firefly Glen innaktuk (3)

He went easy into the role of listener as he guided their route, cataloging this alongside what little else he knew of the north. Most of it had trickled from Kukutux in one way or another, he realized. After, the dark yearling dipped his head to the bit of praise, if it was meant as such. Impressive was one way to call it. Yeah? It is a family thing at the core here, but not exclusively. Others had certainly come to join them for many reasons and run alongside them all the same. My grandparents founded the claim, distant allies have come and gone. And some were probably so inconsequential that it had never mattered for him to learn about them before. We're the first of something so.. he paused with a gesture that swung his snout, concluding on the mountainside ahead. It was a lot of things. .. homegrown, here. he explained in such a very vague, general sense.

Time would tell what they were going to do with it exactly. Antares was proud, and he was confident in his footing in many regards, but it was all new in practice still; he was figuring out the groove of the bigger picture. Maybe talk to him again in six months or so and his opinion might have a better backbone. For now, it was best to go smoothly though.

What about Raven's Watch--are there neighbors there? he asked, curious enough. Or were they far enough north to be solitary too? Down in this relatively southern stretch, had never felt that crowded here in their nook of the Wilderness, but not since the famines (thanks to the earthquakes) that had accompanied his earliest hunts, he had not felt pressed for resource.