“Mukuni?” she and Tuk say at the same time. He was built to gallop across grassy plains, but he seems at home in these jungles, which is a shock to Ilapara because the last she saw of the totem, he was a metal statue sitting next to the gates of their former Skytown residence. He’d been that way since the night of the Requiem Moon, when he’d battled against and killed an arcane lion, getting injured in the process. With his master dead, Ilapara thought he would have run back to the Plains by now. He stops in front of them as if to block the way forward, a low growl coming from his throat.
