Firestone Hot Springs morning star

had she been a more loyal creature perhaps she would have thought to drown him here, so he could not go back to the moon people or his once-wife; she certainly coveted him enough, and the blood they shared. she thought of dutch, and of the harvest that went ignored.

perhaps because of her loyalty, she did not entertain these things for long, if at all.

their blood had to have value. the powers of her mother had been a trial to endure and now sulukinak was desperate for whatever tie she had to her father's people - but this was unknown, except through cen.

he had to live so that she could understand.