a curiosity

The land was very diverse. He'd seen deserts, tropical islands with man-made structures, frozen waterfalls, and more. The man would have gone more east, but he was actually starting to miss the natural warmth of the west, and it was sometimes tedious making fires so much. Especially when not all of the resources were nearby. He either ended up with a weak fire, or had to go on with no fire at all.

Where he was now, it was mostly bleak with few colors, but there were a lot of shrubs and trees around. It made him wonder, as he wandered the area, what kind of trees they were, and what they will look like in the spring. The days weren't as cold as usual, the worse of the weather beginning to wear off. While still far from winter, at least the climax was beginning to be over.

His thoughts are interrupted by the loud rustling and creaking of branches. The noise originates above him, causing the wolf to look up and find--why, what on earth was that wolf doing up there?! “Are you all right up there?!” he called, a good sniff giving him detail that it was a male. It was hard to tell from this distance if he was a teen or adult, but he certainly was not a pup. “How did you get up there?”