Herbalists' Cache hoof trap

loyalty was not enough. but it was quickly becoming foremost. he gazed long at her, framed in the soft light with the snow flung around them, the caribou hide about her shoulders. again that fierce leap of emotion, that thud just under his breastbone.

he kissed her, softly at first and then with a growing insistence; he broke them apart only to behold her once more. "no woman has been so loyal to me as you, dzaeyaqsaa." not even gheli, though it could be argued that she had been given no chance for disloyalty; they had loved each other with too much fierceness.

guilt then, for thoughts upon other things; he offered a small rare smile to her, there in the landscape trodden by sacred caribou. "they will learn many things from you. not only loyalty. pride. knowledge."