Qeya River Ikayuak

it would be some walk to the caverns from here; as soon as assurance came that this stranger knew plantlife, sun eater grunted and jerked his head for the other to follow.

"one who bring you. she is blood." quite belatedly did he recall that he had not informed sulukinak of the new name beneath which he ran now — but this did not matter. his single eye guttered for a moment with a threatening light. "you call me sun eater."

the glower held for a moment, then faded. the caribou man walked on. "i fight for land. come here, ask 'where are leaders?' they attack!" he hooted, hoping to regale the stranger as much as himself. "me. and three of them. i fight. i say again, 'you have no leaders.'" then two say it will be them, and they fight!" 

sun eater chuckled coldly at the remembering. "that is how stone crier is hurt. leg. not stand well. not walk."