Herbalists' Cache cen

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teeth and their terrible nature would bestow caan into life this day. sun eater did not intend to release ishmira, and the sound of his son’s cries sent the chieftain into so sharkish a frenzy upon the girl that he did not immediately feel morwenna at his side.

a kick for her ribs, sun eater dragging ishmira beneath him. now threat of death was honeyed by the sentiment of costing death among the ranks she had assembled behind his back.

all a ruse, all an act. what was more; she had kept his children from him and he had honored her place at the gate of that snow shelter by allowing gjalla and black hawk close.

fangs ripped in one-track-mindedness at ishmira, seeking to pull taut the flesh and skin around her throat while new anguish flowed into his body. morwenna had deceived him, and even as mind turned to red fire, he thought of the many times he had allowed her to glimpse those intimacies of self.

gheli, gheli, gheli — the only wife who had never betrayed him.

he bore her brunt, sidling around ishmira while senses shot into the fray; sulukinak, gone. meleys, tangled with black hawk. 

for c'ede, dark fang's turn might be the final hope.

ridgeback, shouting some nonsensical word while the scent of his blood filled the air; yes. even he! but then again, sun eater reasoned, ridgeback had been a weak man whose strong wife had left him. morwenna would appeal in the ways ice diver was not here to fulfill.
 
a cruel thought, blood staining his dark fur once more as he flame-bent himself upon seeking the cottongrass throat of the girl who dared to still hold caan.