Sunset Valley vant cho

everything about him set mireille on edge, and she was careful to keep several feet of distance between them. "herbs," she said shortly, eyes missing nothing about his movements. 
he was handsome in a way that caught her eye as the others had not; he was purposeful as she was, and this attracted mireille despite her dislike of men in general.
but she was not yet far enough from sapphique. "what do you be seekin', stranger?" the seawolf queried, beginning to circle him as she had once done to svalinn.