Swiftcurrent Creek universum

life debt.

from him she wished children.

germanicus was a man of long control; even now his face betrayed nothing of his body's instinctual hungers.

her eyes were lambent upon him and he thought of crowfeather, how this might feel a betrayal.

and yet did his raven lover not have children with the woman belen, whom germanicus had once known?

not an excuse.

he stepped forward.

"is that all?" the potential of life from the impulse of his body, not fatherhood, not partnership. but his yellow eyes were hot upon moss, wondering.