Ocean's Breath Plateau fire rabbit

aapa.

his eyes stung; sun eater felt as if he were cen again in this moment.

but he did not weep. throat roughened, the caribou man glanced around for the traitorous red leaf and then leveled that single eye at his son.

"i have made a place for us. a lanzadoii place," sun eater spoke, eschewing the sharadoii even as he raised a paw to indicate the warriors who softened to form a path for ghelan.

"the sunshine speakers took me away from you," he breathed, the communion between he and the boy alone. "they made a theft of my eye. they have turned your mother's heart. but not you, my son. never you. i have come back for you. the long march will begin again and you must walk beside me, ghelan."