These are thumbnails from a scrapped scene I had planned out early in the story. Originally, instead of his run-in with the wolves en route to the lake, Rask was going to have to drop into a dry river ravine and travel along it. He would find a steep log jam across a valley of bones, with a bear cave in the rocks. He's have to sneak his way past without waking the bear, though it'd all go wrong (of course), jeopardizing the spark.
I ultimately went with wolves hunting him as a call back to the beginning, plus the bear (RIP) had a new role to play in the story. Maybe the river of bones will find its way into some future tale!
Amethysmus
2021-10-19 17:34:19 +0000 UTC