Emberwood devet

the whole world was for saatsine to walk.

she knew this. she felt it. it was made true by these moments. in the spring they would walk further from the river. wherever these beasts went off to.

there might be clan children by then. there must be, won’t there? they would walk. all of them, regardless.

strong clan. she told him now and felt something of regret! these were things she might have liked to say in his own language. their language, that she still learned. not yet enough to be fluent.

it was a grimace that took place of what had once been brightness. eyes now turned away from his face and out into the moving caribou.