Ankyra Sound deliverance

she nodded, understanding the urgence the pale viking possessed. all the same, she was hungry -- and she would not allow kjalarr to witness the terrible inscrutiny that was her hunger.

she dipped her savage muzzle and for a moment wished to extend her nose to his in a touching embrace of empathy -- but the emotion was shortlived and truncated. she held back, watching him leave. she would wait some time before moving, wishing to be certain he had departed the shore -- and then she would set to doing the terrible and unspeakable.