Ouroboros Spine it's not as if we cry a river, call it rain

we can keep it short, have a travel thread elsewhere, or use this thread, whatever you'd like! :D

He arrived and she thought very much of the first time she had stumbled into him. How large and strong he had seemed in the woods as he had ushered her away from bones. It seemed as though he held some of that now. The strength back in him, despite the marks along his flesh.

Dark they were now. Not so bright and vibrant. It must have been something that had been applied to him. The same murk along his legs.

He truly was a mountain man, wasn't he?

Kukutux did not show, not by Kigipigak's side at least. A pale mark in the sunny distance.

The village woman simply crooned out to the young pair from a distance.

Hawk-in-snow and sun ember she called them. What an unusual pair of names. Sun and snow did not go together logically, but here they were.

"Lets go home."

She could not help the little wiggle of her tail and the way her inky lips split to expose a tiny grin. Quick to try and compose herself. Sheepish.

Please. She breathed, eager to escort him out of here and back to the plateau. No matter how long it took. There's so much to catch up on! Some light, albeit brief laughter, feeling a bit bumbling and awkward.