Mount Apikuni dark vine

head sunken beneath hard shoulders, sun eater watched her go. a stirring of irritation was resplendent in him, to lose a hunter. but there was more anger that he had been questioned at all.

then again, she had not known he had killed to create the saatsine. perhaps she might have avoided his band altogether. sun eater considered making this knowledge more common, growling once beneath his breath as he wheeled firmly in the opposite direction.

lanzadoii found the caribou cow swiftly enough; stooping over her tracks, he tasted the air for sickness as another truth entered his mind.

with red-painted-woman's departure, suliya became the only unbound woman among them. meleys was his sister and sulukinak was his niece. he had hunted enough with kavik to call him one thing, yet perhaps it was —

sun eater did not glance toward suliya. his mind was too resentful to lodge warmly on any subject; he turned his thoughts only to blood.