Firefly Glen [m] the initiative

A watcher stood nearby, and Sialuk paused to test the air.

There were nights when she thought of the soldier and his general, but they grew fewer and further between. Since then, she had taken other lovers to her ulaq, relishing in the pleasure it brought her and the way it knit the village together unlike any other place she had called home. Meerkat's children—and now Towhee's—thrived on the slopes of the spear. And though she missed the face of Raiyuk, she knew neither he nor Nasamik were far.

She approached gently, reigning in the bustling whirlwind of emotions and impulses that threatened to burst from her chest. Glaukos, you... village Mereo. Sialuk found some part of her upset that he had not come to her upon the dissolution of the general's outpost. Another part of her wanted only to find herself lost in him as she had been with her other lovers, their scents still thick upon her coat.