Qeya River time for dying

A commotion brewed in the distance like a storm gathering on the horizon. He heard words ring out like gunshots, snarls lash like vipers. Of the voices, he recognized only two, the same could be said of the scents. It was not the first time a stranger had come to their borders to agitate one of their women. Beauty was in no short supply in Saatsine; perhaps others had come with hopes of stealing a shard of it.

Ridgeback hastened toward the brawl, in time to see Sun Eater bowl into the stranger, and hear Gjalla address the unyielding man as her brother. 

Guarded eyes watched as the Chieftan wrestled with the man. Ridgeback knew the importance of allowing one man to show and prove his strength; he lingered on the outskirts, ready to reinforce punishment should the stranger outmaneuver the Chieftan.