Herbalists' Cache cen

Wasn't going to post Sulukinak since there were so many bodies already, but this can be a low-contact addition; she's more in the background, can be skipped, and can be PP'd by Cen.

They moved together because they had to; she braced her uncle until he felt the desire to rise without aid and stand, and he addressed the woman who was his wife. When she moved toward him with an assumption of grace and care, Sulukinak bristled and looked with her periphery to the muscle that came with them: Dark Fang carried an air of determination, a tension which was shared among those loyal to Sun Eater. If anything were to happen, she could trust this man as well as Meleeys to keep her uncle safe.

The den was cramped by now. Too many adult bodies in one place; but Sulukinak was of narrow build, and with the bulk of them confronting one-another she could snake her way a little deeper, if only for a breath of clean air. The urge to put oneself in to the dirt had never made sense to Sulukinak—she who slept upon open ground, or was at home with the ice of the glacier—but perhaps this was a trait shared only by mothers?

She caught a glimpse of a pale body near the back of the den, her ears pricking and eyes alight, but only for a moment. This was not someone she knew—but the air was sweeter that way, and some part of Sulukinak (perhaps the part that harbored its own maternal fixations) identified that as the nest within which Cen's children slept. Keeping to the curving wall, she turned her attention back to the two leaders of Saatsine.