10/19/2025, 3:51 AM
last thread in the alpines, i think a final visit to saatsine is fitting—plus a chance to tie up loose ends; seeking Cen or leadership members but any welcome!
snow scours the forest against stone and sand alike. and the land smells of old blood and frozen memory, and gjalla moves through it alone. she should not be here. every instinct, every lesson, every ancestor’s whisper warns her that this is saatsine land—that she should simply stay away, and yet the pull is magnetic.
fragments of memories claw at her mind like a big cat raking claws down bark: a child’s scream, teeth at her throat, a life ripped in half. unfinished debts and unspoken sins passed off to her for like gifts she didn't ask for.
gjalla is not one to leave a debt unsettled. not even one she did not understand in the first place. and so...
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she pauses atop a ridge, tail low, nostrils flaring against the cold. the scent of him and others ahead is strong. scent markers, old and new. she does not move forward out of fear; she moves forward out of necessity. curiosity warps into strategy, and strategy into survival. the story is unfinished, and for the sake of avoiding enemies with ignorance, she must learn it—on her terms.
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