Shadewood moss runner

morwenna.

she was the final. the remembrance of her face sent a pointed entanglement of things through kusax̱asaa; a fierce desire, a simmering hatred, a shocked anguish.

when he looked up, daa'ka sat upon the shoreside. chieftain hauled himself bodily from the water, streaming; he moved haltingly to his brother. 

he would think on her another time.

where he might have teased with a spray of water, kusax̱asaa saw that his sibling was — caught, caught in the verve which he had always wanted for river walker.

talvani's scent softly touched the air. he waited, sitting close.