Ankyra Sound manticore

she attended quickly, keeping from him -- this pained the man, and he drew himself up, arranging his features into a more palatable expression. "a new pack has settled upon this very beach, though i do not know their exact location. some days before, two of them struck into our midst, attempting to take my little daughters. my beta was attacked during an exploration, and my older son returned wounded as well. one of ours was also slain, and found dead near donnelaith. the cause of her death, according to our healers, was an infected wound which she was too stubborn to reveal, but who was it that struck her?"

his calm was contrived and weak; lasher longed to allow himself the relief of coming apart before caiaphas, but dared not. "have they attacked here?" his assumptions were bold -- behati would have come before him, had a corsair attacked her, or so he wished to believe, but she was dead, and her blood was upon his head.