the roads that you take may just crack and break,

'phas has many of them!! thanks for the thread!

Caiaphas looked behind her only once as she made her way back to the cave -- and Nishu Inte was no longer trailing behind her. She surmised he had likely concluded his duties with here were complete, and since she had no further use for him at the moment, she did not pursue him.

While she found the male most peculiar (a more fanatic Sister likely would have expunged or killed him quite some time ago) she had been born, like him, a free wolf -- so the notion it would take him time to acclimate to his ways was not bizarre to her. She supposed not all wolves could be born with iron resolve like Greyjoy, or molded from obedient clay like Spyridon.

With these thoughts in mind Caiaphas brought the wrappings of crab and kelp back to Aktaie -- the crabs would be used for some ritual, she imagined -- and the kelp would be placed in their cache for further use.