Herbalists' Cache a mad thought

just love that image so much;;;

she was tiny! so tiny. sun eater had all but forgotten how little a newborn could be, and cradled her with a vast unsurety that was unlike him. star eater gently took fa'liya and gathered the other daughter.

sun eater began to move one of the boys, then hesitated. a caribou hide found its way across his shoulders first, tugged in clumsy swiftness.

with the same caution, he grasped his sons and carefully moved after his mate, out into the snow.

starlight arced above winterground just paling to the green misting of spring grass. he let the pelt slide from shoulders, tried to adjust it with his paws, and then lay each boy there so that they would not be against the snow.

patiently he waited for star eater to arrange herself down beside them, and he shut his eye in attempt to recall the words. in silence then he drew the palest of their four toward him, studying the child. for now he was only akin to a warm lump of ice, a little rabbit there in the cold. but there would be a formidable force inside this one, the cut of a pale knife.

"you are c'ede' ghatggehi, antler that is between. you will be a warrior among the lanzadoii caribou hunters, born into the white raven moiety of the saatsine."

a look exchanged with star eater, affection and pride sharp and bright there amid the ruined socket.