Shadowwyn Moor [m] māmila

"many nights. not all," he said with quiet clarity. "you share me with caribou. until your time," he added more cunningly, sliding his own claws up along the swell of her breastbone and down over the taut belly.

he joined her upon limbs then, circling morwenna to tug at pelt with teasing teeth; he came away from their shelter and stretched his legs in the cold and open air. "then i yours again. we go away from saatsine longer." as chieftain he had not taken his seven days with the starbound; as husband in an icy spring, he meant to take each hour as an individual possession.

"i teach. ice diver will also teach." always moving, the herds followed by the sun clan were prodigious, and he led morwenna up onto a small rise above them. "udzih," he breathed. "first word to know is caribou." a paw lifted toward a large bull with sharp tines protruding from the middle of his forehead. "you say, he have c'ede' ghatggehi. 'antler that is between.'"

a sly shrug. "maybe good name for a new son."