Herbalists' Cache green sinew

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@Meleeys @Dark Fang @Talvani @Kekoa @Nutuyikruk @Cetseni @Yakona @Night Fire (@Sulukinak & @Other Shore mention as well)

he counted their names again, satisfied at the clinking of those titles against one another in his mind.

lanzadoii hunter had not yet allowed himself to think of the taken children. "sulukinak must be found," he grunted. "ghe'naya is gone. perhaps my niece has her."

a pain in his heart.

his own ghost talker burned in him a suspicion, but it was only that. only pain, he told himself. it would not do to react for its bite.

with a hard look toward winsook, where ayovi might have brought down herbs, kusax̱asaa turned back.

"we will go. walk in the caribou tracks. only when sivaak must stop will we rest."

the long march indeed.

soft hides hanging from jawline might tote the pups. their going would be silent, chieftain bringing up the rear. only his siblings knew where the saatsine walked now.

his only comfort was c'ede', his son and the interminable, familiar lowing of caribou calves and their mothers.