Ocean's Breath Plateau rosmarus

his awareness registered the woman close as he grabbed the ailing neck. cen throttled the caribou hard on the sand, dodging his lower body to and fro to avoid the cutting hooves.

it gasped and struggled and at last ebbed upon the shoreline.

cen's shoulders hurt, and his ribs; he let the head of the caribou elder fall back upon the duneland and fell to his haunches, breathing in great draughts of breath with a wincing beneath the hard lines of his face.