Herbalists' Cache cen

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he held up a paw to forestall any healing star eater might have given. dark fang offered harsh words, but his wounded brother offered nothing. for a long time he studied the starwoven with whom alone there had been such intimacies of spirit shared.

his expression closed. his spirit closed. heart held in desperate linger, following suit at the last. cen lanzadoii stood cold before morwenna, as he had done once with gheli and another with red leaf. all that had been gathered in word and in sight while he lay bleeding said that the wife of his heart moved submissive before him and lied.

"your sister choose to fight. she was saatsine. mine, to bring teeth if teeth given. the way of chieftain. the way of — jarl," tasting the word that dark fang had brought to him from winsook's mouth. lips tensed. "way of queen?"

"you seen. come back with blood. smell of glacier. you choose fool sister over lanzadoii children. you leave them. put self in danger. but i think you do more than this." sulukinak had not lied. she had not left his side, and even now did not, though to keep herself around such an assemblage was a strain for the shadow, he knew.

lanzadoii faced those who would not be.

he did not glance toward meleys nor his brother; he spoke what had been carried, his trust in them a reassuring simmer beneath the hurting irritation. "darukaal go to winsook. claim i make war. ask warriors. winsook come to saatsine and you tell them i make war. refuse heal for saatsine. you play game, morwenna," came the heavy voice of a man wronged. "you lie." it was an effort to remain rooted, not to advance, to snap. to escalate. his children lay beyond and the traitors among them had already broken the peace of their birth. "gjalla was never stay here. not after. i let her for you. for you. blackfell leave. same reason. " he did not address his at last-glimpsed cousin, who he had surely sent away. "you not tell to me blackfell have kin in darukaal. he with us, in peace-meeting. remember? saatsine fight saatsine. now glacier may come here?"

there were great energies to be cost, but sun eater did not waver. "speak again, wife. i will listen to explain from you."

his heart galloped a flat field of open pain.

"give explain why you tell winsook i go mad because i not take sister challenge."