As the sun began to set, Wu Ling showed no signs of slowing down. Inspiration seemed to have taken hold and he let the ideas and feelings flow. Su Xiang was kind enough to bring over a few lanterns to help him work and then she settled in with Yue to watch Wu Ling finish his piece.
While he was working, he never forgot the lesson that Hua Jue taught him about connecting to his heart rather than focusing on concepts and outcomes. The totem he'd designed was a pendent of a wolf's head in profile.
For this totem, he used a piece of the skull because he wanted to call on three of the wolf's most primal and useful abilities; its senses. Not all of them, in fact, while he could have tried to draw out the wolf's sense of taste by carving a lolling tongue in the totem, he rejected it as both unnecessary and artistically distasteful.
