Brisk

**Brisk**, also known as **Brisk Born of Icebound** is a female snow leopard, and the sister of Sleet.

## Appearance

Brisk is a snow leopard cub, who is slightly younger than Ghost and his adoptive siblings.

## Personality and Traits

Brisk is mean, calling Ghost a "freak," and stating that Shiver was weak. She bends the truth to her advantage, once claiming that the Cubs Born of Winter were going to let Ghost eat them. Although, despite being spiteful and having a large ego, Brisk does not seem to think that she could survive on her own yet. In *The Dark Sun,* Brisk and Sleet have gotten more independent yet far more dangerous and antagonistic towards Ghost and Shiver, going so far as to travel all the way to the bamboo forests to hunt giant pandas just to discredit Ghost's name, and secretly working with the Broken Forest Troop.

## History

### *Creatures of the Flood*

When Ghost is on a hunting expedition with his siblings, Brisk and her brother confront the cubs of Winter and label Ghost a freak, since he looks different from "other" snow leopards, none of them realizing he is a panda. The cubs of Winter stand up for themselves with Ghost warning Icebound's cubs that they do not want to pick on a bunch of "freaks." Brisk and Sleet subsequently flee, leaving Winter's cubs alone. Despite this, however, Ghost cannot help but wonder if Brisk and Sleet might have a point when they claimed that Ghost has no place in the White Spine Mountains.
Later, the cubs of Winter practice leaping across the Endless Maw in preparation for their rite of passage. Ghost struggles in his attempts to cross the maw. The cubs of Winter are soon interrupted by Brisk and Sleet. The cubs of Icebound challenge Ghost to a race and, seeing an opportunity to prove himself to Brisk and Sleet that he does belong in the White Spine despite his physical features, he accepts Brisk and Sleet's challenge. While Ghost tries to keep up with Icebound's cubs, his bear heritage causes him to tire, allowing Brisk and Sleet to beat him in the race. The cubs of Icebound subsequently tease Ghost in response. Ghost's adoptive siblings stand up for him, with Shiver threatening to have Ghost bite the former pair, warning that, despite being beaten in the race, Ghost has an exceptionally good bite. The cubs are then interrupted by Icebound, who arrives to defend her children from Winter's. Brisk lies to her mother that Winter's cubs were going to feed her and Sleet to Ghost. In response, Icebound threatens to scar Ghost to convince Winter that the panda does not belong in the mountains. However, Winter arrives before Icebound could carry out her threat. Winter berates Brisk and her family for picking on Ghost and her litter. Brisk and her brother watch as their mother duels with Winter. During the fight, Icebound brags that her cubs are more independent than her rivals, and that if Winter kills her, Brisk and Sleet will be fine look after themselves. Ghost, however, can tell by the worried expressions Brisk and Sleet share that they do not entirely agree with their mother's claim, though they say nothing. Winter subsequently wins the duel after Icebound uses the excuse of Winter's cubs needing their mother's protection to stop the fight and retreat.
### *Journey to the Dragon Mountain*

In the Prologue, Brisk and her brother, taunt Snowstorm and Frost for losing their Mother.
When Ghost returns to the White Spine, he discovers that Brisk, Sleet and their mother have been extorting Snowstorm and Frost for food. Ghost stands up to Icebound and her cubs by scaring them away.
### *The Dark Sun*

Brisk and Sleet are hunting a herd of takin when Ghost and Shiver arrive to confront the pair. Ghost attempts to resolve the conflict between the cubs of Icebound and the takin herd, Icebound’s cubs continue to harass the local animals and have Ghost take some of the blame for their actions. Their lies prove successful as no creatures return to speak with Ghost.
One night, Ghost overhears Brisk and Sleet plotting to go down to find and hunt giant pandas, thinking it would show everyone once and for all that Ghost is a predator. Ghost quickly collects Shiver and follows them for days. The two adoptive siblings finally confront the pair by the river and get into a scuffle. Not long after, Ghost finds Rain standing over Pebble's dead body and concludes the leopard siblings did it. Despite this, the Prosperhill pandas believe Ghost and Shiver are working with Brisk and Sleet and drive them away, threatening to strip Ghost's rank as Dragon Speaker.
Crookedclaw later reveals to her spies, including Nimbletail, that "their" leopards, possibly Brisk and Sleet, are in position to kill Ghost.
After the Dark Sun has passed, Ghost returns to the mountains and is attacked by Brisk and Sleet and almost forced over the Maw when he is saved by Nightwalker.
## Trivia

* Despite the "Born" part of snow leopards' full names being capitalized, when Shiver refers to Sleet and Brisk as "idiots born of Icebound," it is not capitalized.
	+ Although this is likely because “idiot” is not a real name.