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aw to all moontide! winging IC what happens to cenleaf in this thread, including the intention for coming close! red leaf to post first!
there was a very large village which had made its home upon a broad and lovely plateau. from the scents, they ate of the sea. their borderlands were crossed with the scent of others, and the tracks mingled, trailing over the boundaries seemingly at will.
cen was astonished by this, and perturbed, and gravely interested.
he had carried their sparse belongings now, leaving
@Red Leaf to bear only perhaps a skin of dried meat or two.
now he returned to the place where he had left his wife, to be safe.
"warriors. women. young men. new children. many come and go. the caribou graze in the forests, up from the river." a rich place, but he had nothing to trade. cen looked to red leaf. she knew by now not to speak first. pushing their things beneath a pile of driftwood further down the beach, allowing his wife one pelt to take, the trader strode ahead of her, and called out to those in this vast place beside the sea.
omg sorry for being so late to this smfh
red leaf swelled now. she felt as though she ballooned much larger than she had in the past few weeks, or even the past few days. her lower back hurt more often, and she noticed a puffiness to her face that was not there before when she looked at her reflection.
she liked the sea. being able to hear it as she and her husband settled down to sleep, the pleasing warmth of salty air, the vastness of it; it was like it stared back at her. if there was ever a place she wanted to rear pups that was not her valley home, she supposed it would be this.
she comes up beside cen with a renewed, refreshed smile upon the pale face, visibly pleased that she was now carrying significantly less weight. he had left her near the border of a sea village, one she was much too fearful to approach alone; relief came in the form of a soft sigh as she presses a kiss to his shoulder.
do you think they will take interest in my pelts?
she asks quietly, shifting her weight around as she attempts to find a comfortable way to stand. or perhaps my amulets. their women may be fond of jewelry.
she hoped to be useful, somehow; provide something in exchange for taking up space upon their land.
A new voiced called out. He shifted from his current pelt treating. The rabbit pelts arrayed in different ways around him as he worked at them.
Yellow eyes assesed the two wolves ashe srrived. A male and a female heavily pregnant by the looks of things. He did some mental math. Wondering if they even have space. They should since Dutch was planning to settle nearby tather than in moontide.
Greetings you approach Moontide. I'm Rodyn Ardeth. Alpha here.
Rodyn was following the large male. Learning what it was he wanted. He looked to the woman when he spoke. He dipped his head to both of them. And then furrowed his brow.
Trying some of the words he knew from Kukutux. They sounded familiar. So he tried her's first.
Do you speak the language of my mother?
He waited patiently if they couldn't understand that. He would try some of the words that he had caught Chakliux using. But he didn't know near as many of those ones. He would go slower if neither one was part of this.
He was determined to find out and then go from there.
Rodyn eas unsure exactly what was said. Her language was not so easy to him. His was a second learned language of Kukus words. So even somw of his was lost in translation.
But he got the just. The way the husband and wife looked at each other filled him with unease. But he couldnt determine why. He didn't think it would affwct those under his care. It seemed a personal thing.
He nodded.
Safe place for babies. Hubt in exchange. Trinkets and furs. We will accept.
Rodyn then shifted. Offering them to come inside the borders. He would tell Chakliux and
@Heph to keep an eye on them as they were new.
u can rank cenleaf i think! <3
they were to be taken in. while cen hated so vast a place, he reminded himself that sharadoii women were weaker than lanzadoii mothers. red leaf had not been raised upon the long march. she needed to stop.
but his heart was filled with anger to stop following the caribou, a rage which translated quickly into a seething resentment for the pretty woman who had turned her head with his beauty.
"this good," he told the man rodyn. "we give thanks. i hunt today for village." a gesture, no glance given now to his wife. "me and my woman, we leave some hides," and cen gestured vaguely behind he and red leaf. "we go to get. come back in little time."
grunting that his wife should accompany him, cen turned when red leaf did, his back wanting to feel no more eyes for a time. this might be the final time he had the sharadoii woman alone for a long while. he did not mean to waste a moment.