Ravenshook Cliffs [m] seal paw

red leaf was quickly beside him, and chakliux set himself between her frailty and the rain, relief beaming from his eyes. "the lodge where you stay now, it is yours, red leaf. and akiak's as well. your voice is heard."
as they walked back toward moontide, chakliux kept his voice pitched low beneath the rumble of the summerstorm. he told to the caribou woman of her son's presence at the den where he had been born. he told her of tulugak, once of moonsong, now only of the moon people, returned with child and in fear of what was to come. 
chakliux did not suggest that red leaf take on the role of supporting the other northwolf, but he felt silently that it might distract her at least in part from cen.