Giant paws carried Taiga quietly through the strange, red tinged landscape. She stopped to sniff one of the pillars, then continued on. The strange, screaming faces seemed to gain more detail the closer that she came to the center and a little tickle of warning bit at the back of her mind. The massive lioness noted the softer dirt between the pillars and gently pushed a bit snowshoe paw into the soil, scraping it away to see if there was anything beneath. Anything that might explain why this had happened.

Again she cut her raspberry gaze towards the faces on the stones, curious as to what the faces even belonged to. There were eyes, nose and a mouth, so they had to belong to some sort of face. A monkey, perhaps?

"Taiga"

Raumr had suggested they travel north to Boreas to scout potential territories. From what he had witnessed so far, there was no permanent home for the felines of Boreas or Auster. This made his heart ache. He could relate to them and wished to be the one to help provide that permanent solution. What he hadn't expected was to wake one morning, after a night full of ground shaking tremors, to find the sky had bled across the heavens. Who had angered the gods now?

Cautiously, as a large cat does, Raumr follows Taiga. She appears more adventurous, more fearless, than him. Which he is okay with, but he's not cowardly enough to leave her alone. He's busy avoiding eye contact with the spires when the wind suddenly picks up, ruffling his mane and drawing his attention to where Taiga paws at the dirt. There at the bottom of the spires is a peculiar etching that could lend fright to anyone not expecting it.

"An animal or spirit you suppose?" Raumr question in that thickened honey voice of his as he moves to stand closer to Taiga for a better look.

Raumr Regalus, the Third

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Yes, Taiga was rather adventurous. After crossing the ice bridge during her youth and almost falling into the churning, frigid sea, not much frightened her. These tall spikes were just more strange structures. She'd seen many since arriving in this land. The odd spikes weren't nice to look at, but she didn't feel as though they were going to jump out and bite her or anything, despite the torturous faces upon them.

Raumr came up beside her and Taiga leaned into him, noting the hesitancy in his movements. It was easy for her to be physical with the big liger, so she did just that, pressing her cheek against his mane. His question was posed softly, almost reverently and the lioness shrugged. "I thought some sort of monkey, perhaps. I'm not sure though." A big paw pushed at the softer dirt again. "The ground is different in between the spikes. You'd think that it would be softer closer to them if they were pushed up through the ground. What do you think?" Raspberry eyes med his own russet gaze as she waited to see what he thought of this place.

"Speech"