Sunset Valley Pǎnakär

can be a cameo; tag otherwise <3

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skorpa healed more slowly than he wished, helped by hunting and his own willingness now to rest where he was able.

and as he healed, ayovi gained the gift of more words. where there was nothing apt for translation, he used their mud-marks, growing fond of each created shape.

he must repay regnvand. there was little reason to do so; she had saved him from fever and he had brought her to these cold lands, but skorpa enjoyed being indebted to her.

distantly he saw the dark shadow of the man he had fought, and near, too near, the spot of snowsilver which marked ayovi's form. a low rumble burned in his throat, and he began a slow approach from among tall dark trees, still some ways away.

wind tugged at the bearskin. skorpa's eyes were hard upon the form of that drengr.

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