Shadowwyn Moor star path

"you are lanzadoii," he seethed toward her, plume raised dark and high. flagrantly she rejected the ways of the people she had claimed, and she had claimed them, else she would be with her murderous mother's people —

"your blood does not waken unless you wish it for yourself. you are saatsine, not one of the muradoii. speak of them only in your mind. guard yourself, suliya. you may only choose one family of spirits."

snort razed the cold air. "take a husband yourself and make him lanzadoii. or choose me when it is time." her children would be part of the saatsine, and she would learn that there was no way to escape what her heritage demanded, for the caribou spoke to suliya in a way the sea did not.

"go out. go hunt. taste their blood now, for all your talk. muradoii ghosts do not walk here."

insult and preservation turned sun eater, though he waited to see if she would heed or continue what he had taken as a challenge.