Duskfire Glacier [M] a place for your head

to say she knew what to expect was far from the truth. it felt the most like too much, as soon as he touched her; and overwhelming thereafter, as she was consumed by his shadow and made to bear the weight of him.

the animal thrill kept her from trying to run as moment to moment, she felt herself caving in. when he was finished with her, would she be different? maybe this was how madness had seeped in to her mother.

when they parted finally, the man found the bedfurs laced with lupine, and sulukinak fled in favor of the dawn.