Sequoia Coast currant

in those first days, wolf dreamer helped the children to nurse from dancing fox.

they must live.

"they must live, do you understand, dancing fox?" wolf dreamer murmured into her velveteen ear, cradling the pups against his chest and wrapping an arm around her.

the snow-winds raged beyond. the man and his wife had left. a caribou had been cut and cured. they had meat, he and @Wilwarin, meat and hides now.

and all for a trade.

all for a trade that soured his belly.

he would not sleep tonight, and lifted his head to watch the millions of golden threads wavering upward from the sea.