Kintla Flatlands pactum

"it matters, boy, because i have asked you."

germanicus did not react to the sneering. the child's eyes were hardened chips of stone stained seagreen. 

"and does this shadow have a name?" but he did not think it was nyra the young one followed. she could not be described in such a way. such shapes were subtle. the giantess could not be.

the youth did not seem to have guidance. the eagle looked at him, waiting. before such an age he had been placed with captains and generals. those boys who were not grew up into the same crassness shown to him this day.