Shadewood dusk speaks

it felt as though a swarm of bees had been set free just beneath his flesh. alternately was kusax̱asaa quite maddened or with his jaw set so tightly it seemed his teeth might break.

when he saw talvani on approach, the chieftain began to turn his wandering eye from her, and then stopped. there was no more order nor contract which bound him, only a stark stubbornness to retain her in title.

and so kusax̱asaa allowed his gaze to move idly over her fine flanks and watery legs, though he only moved to fall in beside the hunter. silence until she broke it.