Redsand Canyon That’s where I’m headed

Crowfeather smiled to her. His eyes remained sad.

Something told him that she seemed motherly. It was a surprise to know that she would be bearing her first litter. It must have been a special time for the to-be mother. The shadow could only imagine the prospect of family, for he had never truly experienced any love from the one he had been born into. Seeing the healer woman glow with the promise of her future was both warming and saddening to Crowfeather.

He loves you?

The question fell from his mouth before he could stop it.

Crowfeather thought of Germanicus, again… and again.