Herbalists' Cache cen

no posting order <3 PP w permission, left it open ended

time moved fast. time moved in the slow puddinglike quality of a dream. he saw morwenna's mouth shape words, understood at last, too late, that her defiance had taken utter root among his sun clan. 

she was ordering them, ordering her wolves as if this had been rehearsed.

snarling erupted; meleys engaging black hawk. other shore's cries. 

dark fang's shouts.

his own teeth were cutting for ishmira, his large strength dragging her down against the earth. sun eater bludgeoned, twisting bites and yanking fur from its moorings; he would be single-minded in intent until she released his son.

his! his! he had been barred from the den, and that he had respected. but all the while morwenna had planned an uprising. there was no reason to believe she had not run to darukaal to begin it, yet he must process this later.

his!
and all the while, disbelief. black hawk he had already known, but ishmira, other shore, even ridgeback? sun eater had been foolish.

never again.

and there must be again.

he sawed his head to and fro, cutting as deeply as he was able; blood slid between his teeth.