Big Salmon Lake outlaw

Here it was! That first leap of faith between men. The stranger dashed forward and came for Marius in such an abrupt way that his shrug was bisected; there was the moment of his shoulders raising emphatically, and then the scythe of teeth too-close, and the pale man instinctively shifts forward.

There had once been attempts at lessons concerning combat, war theory, tactics — all of which Marius found too brutal as a boy, and not at all as endearing as other stories he witnessed. As a side-effect of this aversion he was not exactly skilled when it came to these aspects of life — a fact that his father Calixtus found utterly disappointing.

Hey now, I am not a local! He cajoles, although his tone is less charming and more frantic, and he is wheeling around to try and keep this black bastard in his sights. The fur of his shoulders ripples like seafoam.

It was exhilarating though, and Marius could not ignore the heavy drumming of his pulse.