Snowforest Taiga black blood

She had not been clear and his confusion burned at her further. She grimaced while he twitched and groaned, and when he settled a look of wide-eyed petrification had settled in to Sulukinak. What had she seen?

I smelled blood when I came to Saatsine, and saw you there. Her voice was hollow and it felt like it came from somebody else. In the confines of this private moment Sulukinak felt so small. Blood everywhere; a pale wolf was running. Kekoa came... the further she went the less she could speak, it was as if saying these things aloud made them happen again. As her voice died Sulukinak looked ashamedly to the dirt, at least until she'd drummed up enough focus to speak again.

Cousins came, and the warrior woman, and you called her War Chief; and then the healer came, but... she could not in the moment recall the name of Meleeys, and had not yet met the man with the scarred face, besides which they were more like willow ash in the recreation of this memory; smudged and dark and formless. And... and some time later, your woman. She was... She was bloody too, but not like you. Barely there, this Sulukinak could not blame upon Star Eater because it had been such a sight to her own eyes! Of course his wife could not — but — I thought she was there to help you. She had nothing for you; no medicine, no... no panic, even. She did not stay. I don't know. I don't... I don't know.

She was trembling, not that Sun Eater would see it.

I can't go. I won't go. In this moment it is like Sulukinak is reacting again to Nagruk, snapping teeth at the air, but after that initial jarring clip of her jaws shut she comes to herself again, frowning, shaking. Her voice is smaller, somehow. Please don't tell me to go.