Duskfire Glacier [M] a place for your head

the man looked hungry, but refused her offer. he looked angry too, and for that reason sulukinak wished to slip away before too long; however, she needed to know more about the saatsine and her uncle. if things had come to blows then this man would not be here. she was certain that cen would have done great harm, or his hunters would have finished the job once started.

she did not have any other way to stall; so the woman stood there, somewhat awkwardly, as if awaiting an order. in reality sulukinak was studying the heft of the man for a more primal purpose—another appetite, then.

eyes bright, owlish; if he did not want dead meat for his belly, what about live meat to share his bed? it did not strike sulukinak as an odd thing to ask. men wanted for many things, this she had learned.