Shadowwyn Moor smooth pebble

swiftly she acquiesced — his narrowed eye turned over the threading herds in contemplation. sun eater did not profess to know suliya; he was innately suspicious, and she had already roused it once in him.

"she has left her home to become saatsine. she will leave her name here." 

heartbeat; heartbeat; his thought of subduing until contrition remained the inkspill state of sun eater; morwenna's affable nature did not have a resistance in it that he could see. "i do not know if she will please me."

quietly the chieftain drifted closer; "she is not lanzadoii."

suliya should have taken him the day she admitted her muradoii blood. he wanted this pale caribou woman and whether or not the words were uttered, sun eater knew its truth: he did not desire to see her possessed by the ghost talker or grey man, but himself.

he was powerful; he had killed. he had earned the attention of the sun clan women.

his lightness always for morwenna; but suliya knew things of their people the starweaver might never understand.