Nose as red as Rudolph!

The morning after her near death experience, she led Strai the opposite direction from the way they had originally entered the mountain warrens. Keeping it roughly secret from him where she was taking him, she couldn’t hide the smile on her lips. While she was still a little uncertain about the boy since he had almost allowed her to fall off the cliff, his other actions were showing her he was not all that bad. Maybe he was just misled or mistreated. Delphi thought about this until she could feel the breeze washing in from outside.

“Not much farther!” She said excitedly to Strai from over her shoulder. The path went up a little bit until she was suddenly blinking against the harsh morning light that peeked through thick northern clouds. Standing at the edge of cliff, the view overlooked the Polar Sound. To their left, the pathway dipped steeply downward and went along the valley’s slopes until it reached the bottom. Below, she could already see a fine blanket of snow and a rather large herd of reindeer. This spectacular view is what she wanted him to see. No one else was ever really out here.

She felt like she was on top of the world.

“It’s a bit of a trek, but I know Vidarr will help us bring an animal back up if we kill it,” Delphi says, unable to contain her happiness as her shortened tail wags happily behind her. “C’mon, we’re wasting daylight. The herd doesn’t stay here during the day. Too dangerous,” she mentions it as if she has spent her whole life watching the herd. Which, really, she has spent quite a bit of time whenever she had nothing better to do.

Turning to the left, Delphi begins to make her way down the path and toward the herd of reindeer at the bottom.