Porcupine Ridge ouroboros

"she here, hex," muskrat murmured, feeling the weight of royal eagle's eyes and turning up her chin now to glance into the knowing of that ageless look. around the shadowknife they gathered, two warming his form while the third stood close in protection.

"keep watch," she said softly, then glanced back to hex. "we make — small peace, with vale. but not trust," muskrat added. "not want viskani to see." she said it aloud; while hex recovered, they would see that he was wrapped in the center of their land.

"hungry spirits, they give dream?" the warrior asked after a moment, still imbued with a deep wanting to know what he had seen inside the mountains' heart.