Spotted Eagle Mountain windshear

the ghost was all but given up upon the last echoes of the boy's scream; satisfied, shardul dragged him from the water so that he would not drown and tossed him carelessly upon the rocks. 

when some time had passed, the argent feline laved the wolf's fur roughly, choking at the taste of it, but he meant to wake his captive and question him again, for the shouted words had stroked his ego into darker malice.