Shadewood dusk speaks

"it is a lesson learned by all." his voice was belated, kusax̱asaa sorting whether to respond in anger or in calm to what might have been a barb. the single eye moved to talvani, and he considered with a blink. "my brother seeks a wife. he may be the next ghost talker."

smoothly back toward the hunter he turned such things; he had not moved when she touched him, though a muscle leapt now in the tension of his jaw. a thousand unnamed things, and those things already spoken aloud.

he thought of their faces, their small infant faces, and knew at once that the sore place of his spirit would never heal.

by lanzadoii spirit they drew breath. and by the same spirits would they be found.

"here there is salt as well as earth. you muradoii should be pleased," though it was without impetus, and more now of a rough tease.