Dawnlark Plains Tûnuck

nothing.

they understood one another.

his teeth gleamed in the cold light as strange man spoke of the glacier. of darukaal. each said: we; numbers. we; a leader who spoke for them? sun eater's mind leapt among the words spoken, then cut his gaze back to the woman.

something was familiar about her. not in terms of name nor blood nor look; a flickering knowingness that he wanted to indulge. he did not.

"i sun eater. saatsine take hospitality of ayovi," the chieftain declared, flaunting with care his growing grasp of their commontongue. "second camp for all, here?" and the question stood open to the darukaal man as well. caribou hunter wished to know if he would speak again for these unknown peoples of the glacier.

they tested one another.