Qeya River i like it when the bite marks cut through the skin.

gjalla looked to blackfell, and it was the man who spoke. interesting. "then you go away soon, for seven-day. be alone. hunt together. lie together. when you make return, choose then if you will be wife and husband."

he ignored the lingering tautness of the moment, though he wondered indeed if suliya should have become the mate of this man, and gjalla to have another. but this might only cause dissent in his ranks.

"you have pleased the caribou spirits. you have pleased me," he told them, wanting to go and find meleeys before she had gone too far. "keep on this path."

a wave of his tail released them; sun eater snorted and turned to pad after his sister.