Great Bear Wilderness night sun

his jaw worked terribly, slowed by the sudden stop of sulukinak. cen ground his teeth, ears flattened direly to his torn skull. she was right! she was correct! 

but there was something she did not understand. "red leaf did this. she — lied! to rodyn! to that seal hunter bitch," he growled, teeth bared, panting as he stumbled forward another step, then stopped, turning toward the dark wolf.

"she cost me my son! she cost me the march. and these moon people. these sunshine wretches. i hate them. they will not steal vengeance from me! or keep ghelan from what he must know!"

but his trajectory continued, moving directly east into the flatlands, then the mountains beyond, then the taiga. cen was unwilling to put their hides in more teeth. "forward," the caribou man gritted through clenched teeth, capitulating.

for now.