Moonsong Glacier ayagaa

arrive did chakliux did, with an offering of last blackberries for her lodge. his stomach was at once filled with hunger, his veins with desire.
but when he entered the lodge, his brilliant expression grew subdued, to see that she was not her usual jovial self.
"has something happened?" he asked when he had set his berries beside the salmon and looked across the eating-place at her, brow furrowed.