Arrow Lake What are people but deaths that haven't happened yet?

please skip me; he's just making a cameo

He knew Mahler had been present at the birth, helping with delivery, but that didn't mean that Vercingetorix trusted the midwife enough to watch his children. When the dark-furred man settled by the den, Verx approached, a silent shadow, sitting in the shade of a small tree nearby.

His eyes were gimlet as he watched the scene, muscles tensed and ready to spring at a moment's notice. Of course, any omniscient narrator should know that his fears were irrational. But that information wasn't available to the former cheka, and so his worries continued.