Shadewood dusk speaks

a shake of kusax̱asaa's head was given, both to talvani's words upon the muradoii, and her invitation to hunt. "i must heal. and do not forget that sivaak nursed the son of the lanzadoii. muradoii strength has kept him alive."

he straightened, lifting his chin despite the indignity of declining this chase. "the saatsine bears no remembered hate for the muradoii." he could not speak for all the lanzadoii, but he could speak for the sun clan.

he motioned toward the sea. "run them into the salt and they will drown, but you risk losing pieces of your kill to the monsters which live inside that place." an irony, that he had commanded talvani to be lanzadoii, and now removed from before her his hatred of the blood-eaters.

but then, much had changed.