Ocean's Breath Plateau dentalium

whatever else chakliux might have said died an abrupt death on his tongue. the berrybright eyes shone in shades of shock and confusion and anger. 
there were very few ways to make such a conclusion. the seal hunter looked with new gaze at the small shelter, the absence of cen, the salt on her face, and the boy in her arms.
a horrid and great sense of doom collected in the man as if it were storm-water. he looked up along the path, a warrior protecting a path, and then his scarred shoulders flexed as he tried to dispel the rage.
"red leaf, what has he done?" his stare traveled over her limbs, her shoulders, trying to see.
plans formed in his mind but he shoved away their coalescing shapes; he needed now only to know from her voice what he had already assumed about cen.