Moonspear the dark age

Norah came at her hard, and Sialuk felt herself shrink back at the way she was being talked down to. Everybody else had been so encouraging, so it was hard to hear such harsh words coming at her from somebody she did not know very well. Her shoulders slumped, and she gathered the bones back into the skin, pulling the makeshift pouch close between her two front feet. She felt rather protective of them now.

At the questions, she shrugged, her skin hot beneath her fur.