Duck Lake blue heron

sun eater did not like her gentle disagreement.

and yet he saw it was not a fight, nor argument. she offered what she knew even as she bowed her head to his will.

"this is only way for saatsine," he at last said, finality in his words. slate-blue eye found red-painted woman, then moved again to the caribou. he wondered at the child she had brought; he wondered if she would remain the quiet red shadow or move to become more.

she, like the wind, knew she must transform.

"you meet others not of sun clan?" the lanzadoii man asked, wanting to hear any word of others not with them.