Broken Antler Fen pleisosaur

she shook her head. "no. only fishing once, but — i had liked tambourine company." a mouthful of syllables. she rested in the next moment. 
perhaps akavir had already come here.
teya knew enough to understand that the pups borne by ibis did not belong to the darkfurred man, and would not. but she auspex was beautiful, gloriously so. maybe they had loved one another, once.
she hated to think of ibis loving another.
this jealousy! she loathed it also, for it made her stiff with detachment. a silence, stretching, until it felt too long and she said, "i not see someone die before. i see him dead. sometimes."