The Tangle She will be mine

there was no reason to distrust this stranger. val, who'd largely only ever had good encounters with his kind, put his full faith in nuri.

yes, sapphique. he'd never stopped to consider the name odd -- was it? they were last seen by the rendezvous. he couldn't believe his luck, finding a stranger so willing to help. if you find anything nuri, please howl -- day or night -- by those cliffs. he motioned to where sapphique's hulking shoulders rose from the flatlands below.