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

river walker drew close, urging a deference from sun eater that came for no other. "ghost talker," rumbled the chieftain. "you ask i give you wife in summer. see now. we keep. teach to be saatsine. you have what you want when sun is hot."

if he was crueler, he might have given her now, though he did not see the same malice in river walker. they were both quite young; she would grow into the role commanded.

gently, far more gently than before, sun eater pushed the girl toward the ghost talker of the saatsine.

so long as the spirit man was settled, so would be the caribou lives which had been taken by his teeth and that of others. "i ask morwenna to care for her. to keep, teach."