Mount Apikuni dark vine

"you already bring weak pup to saatsine," sun eater sneered, tongue flicking over one corner of his mouth. "you come. you beg. hungry. bones. saatsine give. now you raise voice."

there was no endurance in her, not for what was ahead. rather than accept her own weakness, red-painted-woman flung it toward him, as if he had been the one to drink her power.

"leave." bullish snort hung in the frostlaced air. it was good that he had brought she and suliya here, that the others had not heard her words reared against him. "take child. go to other who have you."

ancient as the land itself, the caribou were everlasting in a way even the strongest wolf might never hope to be.

fangs glimmered in the cold atmosphere; a warning.