High As The Mountains, Low As The Valleys
Natha felt much better being out in the open. They worked their way through mountainous ranges until reaching an area called the Polar Sound. The mountains parted into a deep valley surrounded by sheer, slate rock. The ocean worked it's way through the middle of part of the valley through an inlet. The sky above was starting to filly with dark gray clouds but the sun was still shining in the west.
"Whoa, now this is more like it! I think I see a way to get down into the valley." There was a narrow canyon at the southern end and she padded eagerly over to it before starting to work her way down into the valley. She was anxious to see what awaited them. This was a really pretty territory and she could see herself spending time here in the future.
Knight
As soon as Tamsyn heard the sound of the falls in the distance she was immediately excited to see them. When they came though the trees and she was able to see the huge, ocean filled valley she was blown away. She grinned happily and took a second to just appreciate the scale of it all before she followed Natha around to the southern edge of the sheer rock facing.
The ebony wolf made her way down into the valley as well as they took advantage of the small canyon that had formed here. Once they reached the bottom she took a look around at the surprising amount of greenery that was flourishing here. Even though it was mostly just various grasses, it was still a fair amount of plant life for being so far north. She made her way to the edge of the water and paused as she looked out to where the inlet opened up to the ocean. A large splashing sound made her gaze dart back toward the center of the secluded section of ocean just in time to see the flick of a young whale’s tail above the surface before the creature dove back down and seemed to make its way out into the open ocean. Tamsyn grinned with delight, her tail wagging as she looked over to Natha. ”Did you see that?! A whale!”
Natha reached the valley and strode out into it. There were grasses swaying gently in the breeze and Natha had to stop for a moment as she caught sight of a gorgeous waterfall. The water tumbled and fell over the dark rock down to a river below. This really was a gorgeous territory. She could be tempted to live here though the wild trees of the woods also tugged at her. What a shame these territories couldn't be right next to each other.
The approached the ocean inlet where a few seals suddenly slipped into the ocean, then at that moment something large flipped out of the water. Natha's jaw dropped. A whale?! She turned to stare at Tamsyn for a moment. "What the heck is a whale? That thing was huge!" That tail had to belong to the biggest fish she'd ever seen. "They don't eat creatures like us do they?" She didn't fancy ending her journey by being eaten by a fish. She'd never live it down!
Tamsyn couldn’t help but giggle at Natha’s reaction to the whale breaching out of the water. She had reacted pretty similarly when she had seen one for the first time herself, though she hadn’t had someone readily near by to tell her what they were. She shook her head to the question of if they would eat them, quickly reassuring her feline friend. ”No, they won’t eat us. Actually, I think they just eat smaller fish. I did hear once that some of them eat plankton, but they’d have to eat a lot of plankton to survive off something so small, don’t you think?”
She looked around again now that she was sure the whale wasn’t coming back for a second pass and her mint eyes landed on the waterfalls again. Waterfalls were one formation that she never got tired of seeing. The steady white noise of crashing water was always so soothing to her. ”This was a great find. It’s beautiful down here.”
Natha felt relieved that whales didn't eat creatures like them and instead ate mostly fish and something called plankton that sounded like some sort of lichen or something to her. She didn't know exactly what it was but as long as it kept the whales fed she didn't particularly care. She also supposed it made sense that whales at smaller fish. They probably didn't have a means to get on land very easily. "Yea, probably. As long as they aren't after land creatures I'm good with it."
The clouds continued to move across the sky but the sun held its own, the light glittering down on the short, shrubby pine trees and the numerous waterfalls. "There are so many waterfalls here. I have to say this is probably one of my favorite territories of what we've explored." She turned to Tamsyn and smiled softly. "I've really enjoyed exploring with you Tamsyn. Maybe we'll get the chance to do it again some time."
She nodded in agreement with the comment that this was one of the favorite places they had explored. There was so much to see in just one place. She loved the waterfalls and the way that the sun hit the rocky valley walls and all the unusual sea life that seemed to gather here. She’d sit here all day in hopes that the whale came back for another pass.
She looked at Natha with a smile as well, her tail fanning gently behind her. ”Me too. I hope we can explore again sooner rather than later!” Boreas had felt like such a mystery when they first met and in a way it still was, but at least now she was familiar with a large portion of it. It just made her all the more eager to go see even more of it! Maybe she’d head further south and try to find something a bit warmer or more similar to the lands she had grown up in next.