Phoenix Maplewood b is for basil assaulted by bears

it was a good display. his cruel mouth curved in spite of itself. all he saw for a moment was ghelan, ghelan. his lanzadoii son.

eyes for a moment lifted now in the far-off direction of moontide. red leaf and their son lived on those shores, and to torment himself, yikaas often imagined the handsome seal hunter beside them.

bile limned his throat. why did this boy's framing make him aware that he had seen the interplay of charcoal and gold at least once before?

"where mother? where father?" he asked suddenly in a raven's guttural voice. anymore, when yikaas spoke it was to himself, and he spoke only lanzadoii then. common words were starting to evade him once more.