Shadowwyn Moor blood talon

she carried a piece of bone with her, ratty and pilled where the skin hung loose, and herself much the same, cavorting after the band of family.
sun eater looked back upon the migrating bodies; sulukinak held his eye, and slipped around, and as she passed him she tossed the bone at his feet, listening to it clatter.
the river was behind them, the moorland ahead; what might she find here? curiosity pulled her away to shadow, head low and eyes bright.