Dragoncrest Cliffs [m] salt settling

flush off her fleshly victories, returned home to the place she did not mean to leave again for a long while, chani was brazen. her experiences beyond sapphique had been shocking and pleasant, and she beaned her full favor over pepper as he came close.
"it be a beautiful morning,'" she agreed, though her curiously intense gaze did not leave his features. a broken tooth, his smile ivoried. grizzled fur, a step that limped sometimes.
his eyes were the color of inner mahogany bark, and he welcomed her with a genuine warmth.
perhaps it was new eyes, or perhaps chani realized she was just now seeing him. erzulie and aningan. mireille and val. now maybe a new man might be taken into the confidences of sapphique. she tested a step and then another, seeing no reason not to be direct as she had been; she tried to see if he would react. "what have you been up to while i was away?"