- Pronoun
- they/them
These frozen lands only truly thawed in the dead of summer. With the earliest wisps of spring on the horizon, it would take a while yet for winter's icy grip to loosen. Still, the signs were there, if you knew where to look. Icicles glistening with meltwater from the noon sun. Adventurous sprouts peeking through the ground-frost.
As twilight deepened, a greying Typhlosion ambled along a well-trodden path, his hindpaws leaving partially-melted footprints in the snow. He located a small clearing surrounded by a ring of smooth stones, which held an assortment of hardy evergreen shrubs, and set to work. With a few coughs, he ignited his neck blaze, violet flames dancing across his collar. Then, with a light touch and the gentle flicker of embers on his paws, he carefully melted the snow from the tender young leaves.
Nightfall had come by the time his work was done. Satisfied, he turned to head back toward camp. Alioth hummed to himself as he went, occasionally glancing over the hills to the east. Were his old eyes playing tricks on him, or were those travelers making their way across the tundra?
As twilight deepened, a greying Typhlosion ambled along a well-trodden path, his hindpaws leaving partially-melted footprints in the snow. He located a small clearing surrounded by a ring of smooth stones, which held an assortment of hardy evergreen shrubs, and set to work. With a few coughs, he ignited his neck blaze, violet flames dancing across his collar. Then, with a light touch and the gentle flicker of embers on his paws, he carefully melted the snow from the tender young leaves.
Nightfall had come by the time his work was done. Satisfied, he turned to head back toward camp. Alioth hummed to himself as he went, occasionally glancing over the hills to the east. Were his old eyes playing tricks on him, or were those travelers making their way across the tundra?