Verdigris Ravine and the rest hope for a shoulder

his eye was upon the skull. now he turned and showed the woman the full sight of his scarred, ruined eye. it had been given to the spirits once, long ago.

there was age in the other but she also had no age. neither young nor old, zoug saw in her the same sort of weight he carried. and secret things.

he lifted the piece of sharpened bone. did the staring one want this? in trade? zoug did not think so, but offered it on the flat of his paw all the same.