Herbalists' Cache a mad thought

"you are already these things," sun eater murmured, looking toward her once more with his remaining eye. "saatsine welcomed your place at my side when you came from swiftcurrent. they honor you as my wife. the women come to you as their teacher. heal," he said softly, seeking to reassure, "and teach them to heal."

"you are strong." 

in his arms he held such proof.

now he turned his eye over them, lowering his scarred muzzle to see that each breathed just as they had in the last moment, moving with large amounts of caution, and a smile found its way to his mouth. "and they will have your power."