Nova Peak yon peche [m]

his protectiveness flashed something low, an ache that was not so familiar and yet was, all at once. the regard in which he gave her, drawing up as if cut off by some invisible line, sent a symphonic glissade along her skin.
followed by guilt, but this was not followed by a disgust, a recoil as she had expected, and therein was a danger.
"a big man. a white circle aroun' one eye. or do you mean t'ese," mireille teased, as vague-sister or as woman she did not know, baring the curve of one shoulder to show where the glacier-man's teeth had been. "i got t'ese by earning t'em, val."
a twist of her mouth. she did not know what was wrong with her, and so pulled away, drawing near desperate breaths of the frigid mountain air into her lungs.