Qeya River to die for

"no!" 

his shout became a man's scream, a sound which he had never allowed to escape his lips before the saatsine, a sound he had only brought into existence once before.

spasming landscape; red leaf crouched crying for ghaden; gheli's dancing laughter, the tired radiance of her eyes as she showed that newborn son to his awestruck father; red leaf screaming for mercy in sharadoii while the lanzadoii band ignored her; ghaden, ghaden, ghaden, ghaden.

"ghelan! no!" woe betide anyone who might be caught in his way as sun eater lunged into the dark ice of that frozen water.

one of the hunters was within the waves as well, and ridgeback besides; all the chieftain could do was plunge himself beneath the surface again and again, until his eye burned shut with cold and a horrible cry of rage cracked against the grey light.