as the animal kings breathe their terror upon you

Qanik had ventured from the north once again. Not in the hopes of finding Flamesong this time, no. She'd given up hope of that after having found no trace of him at all the whole long season. She wasn't even actively recruiting for Tortuga, content to leave that to happen on it's own now that the pack was growing. No, this time she was making her way south to see for herself the underground caverns about which rumors had been trickling north. Rivers of fire? Glowing caverns? She was curious, and she wanted to see if there was anything there that would benefit Tortuga somehow.

The dark chasm that opened at her feet was awe-inspiring, even more so than she'd thought. It had taken some time to pick her way down into it, but once she'd made it and looked around, the sight truly took her breath away - if the heat emanating out hadn't already done so. It really was a river of fire. Or rather, she saw as she looked closer, a river of molten rock running through the cavern. She wandered along it for a time to admire it. Nothing here for Tortuga, but it was amazing nonetheless.

She nearly missed seeing the wolf as she came up on him unexpectedly, her eyesight overwhelmed by the brightness of the river as compared to the dark of the cave, and with his coloring so much like a fire-reddened rock himself. She stopped abruptly, her own cool gaze flickering over him. "I was not expecting to find another wolf here of all places," she spoke with some humor.



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