Shadowwyn Moor Don't you know it is just the chemicals in our veins that causes pain?

he dragged her with ease through the snow, stopping only when he felt her curl fawnlike and silent. assured then that there would be no running, sun eater released her flesh and rolled his shoulders.

"i tell story," he grunted, settling before her in a way that demanded attention upon him. "i come to river. no leaders. two women. a man. they fight me. we bleed," he went on in a careful monotone.

"one woman have blue eyes. she say she leader. she fight other wolf there. she leader, she say, so i kill." it was not flung with any pride; he spoke in a tone that said only what had gone on before.

"river wolves stay. become saatsine. ask place for children to come back." pointedly he stared at the girl, at her starred forehead. "now you here. i keep."