Ain't No Sunshine

*Lyulf* · 03-27-2020, 11:14 AM

She made it look so easy, the way her body seemed to effortlessly glide up the side of the glacier. He was thankful that it was she who had picked the path, his more narrow paws slipping a few times. The familiar bite of ice against his pads brought him an odd melancholy feeling, a faint smile touching his lips as he remembered his mother teaching him to climb. If only she could see him now, hanging out with a lynx, climbing and exploring like they had always loved to do. Natha called down to him, asking if he was doing okay. He nodded, but then remembered that she couldn't exactly see that right now. "Doing okay, thank you! You seemed to pick a good path," he commented, seeing the way that it cut through the glacier like many paws before them had worn it down. Lyulf puffed as he picked up the pace, having lagged behind as memories consumed him. Already he could feel the burn in his legs, not able to help the small chuckle that rumbled in his throat. "I used to be able to do this a lot easier, looks like I'm out of shape," came his soft words, hoisting himself forward with a powerful kick off his back legs.

Natha beat him to the ledge, leaving him to scramble up the rest of the path to catch up to her. As he pulled himself onto the lip of the mound of ice, he gasped as the view expanded before him. He could see for miles up here! There was a sea of glaciers below them, almost looking like the ocean itself had frozen over. The sharp blue of the ice caves cut through the dim light of the morning, his eyes wide as he tried to take it all in. "This is incredible..." He breathed, more taken aback by what he was looking at than tired from the climb. It was one of the most amazing things that he had ever seen, another laugh slipping free. "You could stand up here for hours and not see the same thing twice!" Commented the wolf, turning to Natha with a look of wonderment on his features. Sure, he had been high up before, having lived on mountains most of his life. But there, the higher you climbed, the less you were able to see below. The twist of fog and clouds usually blocked the view from below, but this was totally clear. "Wow... thank you for taking me up here..."

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