Shadowwyn Moor star path

"my sister, meleys. she follows the caribou alone to herself. it is what she wants. it is what she says she will keep in the spring," sun eater began directly, putting aside his notice of that pained moment. "i ask if you will do the same."

how easy it was to speak with suliya; how not fraught with tones held back, eyeblinks veiled as not to give. there was no difficult dance between he and she, and the lanzadoii flowed between them in honeyed current.

suliya had no husband. sun eater would ascertain first if it was a status she wished to change. it was practical that they choose one another; the chieftain predicted harmony upon basis of shared ways. she would not weep before him if children were left behind; he would not need to enforce upon her as he had done with stubborn red leaf.

it was the absence of sugary flightiness in his belly which most displeased sun eater. here was a woman long of leg with all-seeing eyes; he could allow her to drive away any other memories, and yet he did not move to ask.