Qeya River briar hearts

ur always welcome!

seeing sun crier down beside the river, her tall frame gilded with sunlight, satisfied the caribou man. it meant he had kept his word; it meant that she would live, despite her pain.

but would her walking continue? could she hold the abilities of his clan? 

still sun eater did not question overmuch. it was a day to be celebrated in good, contemplative silence. he felt they had a better chance now to leave before the first hard frost.

ghelan! his heart leapt. sulukinak searched for truth among ash and the man who might share blood. but perhaps he did not need to wait so long.

he lifted his head. "ugheli dzaen, stone crier," he greeted her in partial lanzadoii. time now also to shed the unpleasant common, though for now he spoke its bulk only with sulukinak.