Dawnlark Plains paint rock

her words turned a rush inside him. the man stemmed it with a grunt, a sound which said he had heard. 

on a ridge of slowly melting snow, two caribou calves tottered beside their mother. twins, born that morning. there were no lanzadoii men here. ghelan was a boy. ridgeback had become the closest. but to the chieftain's sense, only he was the standard. the children born to the sun clan would be caribou hunters from their first breath.

"where tartok?" he asked, wishing not to dwell upon the untouched frustration of his body.