Luneshale Pass gris

just a RO catching up <3 some slight PP and assumptions, lmk if that is not ok and as always will happily edit. <3 single replies welcome! i will archive in a week :D

against all probability, verapaz flourishes.

@Leto delivers a new generation, each of them beautiful as promised. soto watches them at times, occasionally dragging a kill back to the den for the nursing mother. delos' antics draw a rare smile from the segundo as he watches him wrestle with @Apollo.

@Fiamma holds strong. he means to ask her if she's seen any movement to the north. the season will change fast, and soon the green will be ready to harvest.

@Towhee and bushtit moved on. at times soto finds himself missing the gimpy amazon's presence, and the inquisitive nature of his son. he watches the borders often, half-hopeful to see their familiar silhouettes returning.

arslan and kemal stay busy. soto crosses paths with them at times, approving their utility. let none mistake verapaz for being poorly guarded with those two lions on the prowl.

@Hiro remains reclusive, but this soto does not mind. the quiet ones are often the ones with the most industry; he redirects the ice-eyed boy to tending the saplings previously nursed to life by @Aderyn.

and @Safiya -- his lovely summer pearl -- for her first join task, he asks her to guard leto and keep her fed. he thinks -- though cannot say for sure -- that both could use each other's company.

for the newer boy @Emilio, soto delivers a join task that he thinks kills several birds with one stone. seek out safiya and ask her if she needs any help tending to leto -- and then, find arslan and restock their cache.

all in a day's work, this management of many moving parts. soto rests upon his haunches as the sun fades behind a greying landscape. soon, the season of green would be upon them and all hands would be busy. but for now, he's content to listen to the gentle trill of dusk creatures as they move about in the outer dark.

She could guard. She could hunt. And it kept her mind busy. And she didn't mind the she wolf Leto. She could handle this. 

However, the wolf Emilio seeking her out would cause her pause. But she would weather it as she always did. Fearlessly.

Safiya began her hunt. She wanted a brace of rabbits if she could a small fawn if she could find a late summer child.