The Heartwood lustmord and wargasm

@luke

with saena departed, osprey gravid, and dante unreceptive of his affections, lasher had thrown himself headlong into his duties as beta. as the speckled girl had once aspired to the role of naturalist, taltos found himself taking up the task, as well as doubling his patrols upon the borders. meals were spent with the growing children, and blue willow, and he found time to steal his lover away for brief and pleasurable interludes.

today he tracked a great elk, aged and majestic, from the heart of his territory, across hill and vale. there was a sense within him that the elderly beast was searching a quiet place to live out his last days, and he wished to be there for it. and so beneath the warmth of midday lasher found himself entering the dark and eldritch forest he had seldom explored, nares flaring at the possibility of what was within.