Shadowwyn Moor smooth pebble

his laughter was cruel and dangerous, cutting across her too-familiar talk of the everdark. in this moment there was nothing of lanzadoii in suliya; he saw her for the creation she was, monster's blood and fishbones mired in cold water.

"i give you power to make another saatsine. to make a man lanzadoii. only i can give this. but i see you are not worthy of it." he stepped aside, lashed his tail once, and addressed the caribou woman in ultimatum.

"do not speak of the muradoii again. i forbid it. only becoming a vessel for lanzadoii blood will save you. they have no spirits of their own, and those of the saatsine will devour your heart."

submit. to him. to the glacier runners. to what he knew was right and true. sun eater stared hard at suliya, then turned away to leave the pale woman behind.