Qeya River sand hollow

"yes," and now his countenance dazzled with the flat luster of a rage he had never showed his wife before —

this wife

"tell it to me."

gheli had loved him. red leaf had defied him. where would morwenna fit, for he saw her as she had once been, and marveled that he had not seen her royalty before.

"i do not doubt your choice. you have been loyal to me and to saatsine." without warning, roughened paw brushed the swell of her belly; he felt the heat of her skin there and was comforted. "trust that i see your bond."

and yet the slate eye demanded all the same, that star eater speak and leave nothing from his ear.