Shadowwyn Moor star path

suliya was right to say it. nothing could prevent the spirits from carrying away breath. he might have said more upon that subject had not she mentioned then the muradoii. any caribou hunter child knew the stories, whispered by mothers who wanted them to stay close.

the muradoii. stalkers of the blood ice. killers who had grown ivory teeth like the narwhal. like the orca.

it arrested sun eater, brought his breath in a stubborn, sharp exhale of white pluming; "what do you know of the muradoii? they do not love," he declared, leaving off the fragments of their earlier talk for the shadow of this one.