Herbalists' Cache wooden doll

"any day? then i cannot go so soon," sun eater murmured, reluctantly taking his touch from her belly. it felt surreal; he had watched red leaf grow with ghelan. now he watched star eater grow with the new life they had planted.

he did not quite feel fatherly. not yet.

perhaps these children represented his opportunity to be more. ghelan inherited much from the caribou man, all but affection.

"yes. make her ready. she will learn to hunt. make her see her good place. wife to ghost talker will keep all her children if he wills it."

he raised his eye to her face. "and you were not broken when you came to me."

skirting, sidestepping the fact of her queenship.