Ocean's Breath Plateau walrus fat

chakliux inhaled and grabbed dutch gently, pulling him forward. for a moment they only held one another in a silent paroxysm of muscle and intakes of breath.
"i believed you dead," the seal hunter heard himself say in a garbled, broken voice he did not even recognize. tears were upon his face; he did not brush them away, but wept them openly.
"my heart — it fails me with words to see you home. alive," chakliux breathed, his berrybright eyes now flicking with worry over the rendings in dutch's hide.