Ocean's Breath Plateau star shell

but he knew; somehow he knew. tullik's dutiful, endless work had not gone unnoticed as the man had sat outside the lodge and healed from his own wound.
he slung his chin over her nape; he pulled her into the set of his chest and the beat of his heart, and exhaled a long breath against the roots of her pelt as if to say i know, wife. do not hide.