Starglow Basin The jungle

soto’s been busy. 

he’s used to running things how juarez liked it. big man decides the direction, soto provides the people. for all his cleverness, he never stopped to think osiel might feel differently. 

he’s up at his makeshift den in the lookout when el oceloté comes in bristling. commanded to get up, soto does so — wondering if the man’s come to punish him for saya’s failure.