Two Eyes Cenote pétalo

soto is pointed in his studying of khusobek as he rakes out each tangle of knotted fur. he will know the direction of every shaft of hair on this man's body when he is done with him -- and khusobek will know all of him.

a woman pans into view; she is a far lovelier shape than his captor, and her voice is lowered. soto preferred women in most dealings -- men were strong, pugilistic, and blinded by belief of their superiority. but women -- they had scratched a living on the underside of men's sharp-edged grandoise, and he finds that they often can be reasoned with.

he sits up straight as the murmured tones reach him, the last of his fur smoothed from khusobek's trespass.