Swiftcurrent Creek You were moving in, now you're moving on.

On the tip of his tongue hung a certain confession—and as he considered his littermate for a moment—the man before him who had been with him through thick and thin through all aspects of his life, spare when he had been traversing on his own—he knew only Viinturuth would be the one to hear this.

“I loved her. But there’s another. Unattainable. And I think, somehow, Eshe realized that…”

Perhaps, the mask he had portrayed—the great role he had tried to act—had not been as cleverly done as he had hoped.

And as abrupt as her departure was… Perhaps, there was a part of her that had sensed it, as well.

He didn’t wish to dwell on it. “Any other news from our talented scout?”