Neverwinter Forest callorhinus

He smelled of the man Dutch, but did not know him? A perplexed spark overcame her gaze and then Sulukinak put aside that thought. It made little sense. Perhaps he wasn't so bright. Ice mother had told her about children dropped from too high on their head, or forgotten by the water, and a number of other accidents that might produce a stunted creature. She wondered now if this had happened to the autumn boy.

His whine made her worry, of course. He seemed distraught for his lack of communication skills and Sulukinak reacted to the sound as a sister might to a brother, as she was accustomed to that. When her brothers were hurting she would always be there—so here and now, she reached forward to nose at the autumn boy's shoulder and try to calm him.

She didn't know what to say, though.