Whitebark Stream meddleborn

fresh from adrenaline spurred by the presence of another male, sun eater found fight to lay still his guard hairs as ridgeback came along. a loyal hunter, his offer would support saatsine and send him off, away from the woman over whom their chieftain was growing most possessive.

for them she spoke, and he jerked his head in a hard nod. "kill him if he give fight, bloodhunter," came the growling grunt; he refrained from further caresses to his wife but stepped to lead her aside and away, back into the protective shadows cast by those few stunted trees.

his. she belonged to him, and his eye proclaimed this in stark adoration.