Ankyra Sound BWP: Borrow Trouble

chacal's warm smile and easy wag of her tail bid him close, yet the rings halted him in his tracks. he followed her gaze down the strand -- how many of these things were there?

and better yet, what do they mean? chacal's exhale of disbelief prompted val to do much the same -- his breath unwound from him like a loosened coil, in an admixture of awe and superstition alike.