Swiftcurrent Creek frog

that same cloud clung to the night man. muskrat wondered if its presence was permanent. but she too was silent, basking beneath the same warmth as she considered what her life after this might be, once she had served her debt.

there was another man whose closeness to the plantwolf made it clear that akavir was not involved in this pregnancy. he had no wife that she could see.

perhaps he was a holy man. they often fasted and swore off the pleasures of women, sometimes for an entire lifetime.