79.squall-longleg.4.11

Today, I located a place that I had been expecting to find, I've named it Ripperthroat gorge. Did I spot a ripperthroat, no -- but then I had Shad with me, so his scent, and mine, would have forced them into hiding had they been about anyway, and it was daytime, so if they were about, they would have been deep in hiding, and I wasn't about to start poking about and trying to wake a rippertrhoat from its slumber, that would seem to be a somewhat silly thing to do. But I expect that I have walked in their lair, there were signs, smelting, a wooltard jaw bone (I'm not an expert on wooltard anatomy, but that's what it looked like to me), a lot of wool strewn about, and a scent that had Shad on edge, and was unusual -- not something I smell in Hellsborough, or have smelt anywhere else to be honest. I'm thinking that maybe I should go back at night without Shad, I am feeling an affiliation with the ripperthroat, I know they'll not harm me, I feel at one with them, I feel I am part of the pack, that I am ripperthroat.