Blackwater Islands thorn

lestan wanted to shout she made no sense, that this was all nonsense mumbling and nothing he could carry back with these — these children he did not want.
"and this?" he cut in, flinging his paw toward the thing from a sacred place and their odd fruits. breathlessly; he was angry with himself for cowing so early, for not threatening her further — for his hateful, spiteful, eternal weakness!
"what do i do with this? what is it? magick also?" and bitter beyond himself, for there was now some part of lestan which believed he would return home to find reverie dead.