Ouroboros Spine salumaruk ⇑

they were not quiet for long. kukutux stirred as raimo's scent invaded her senses; her silent greenstone gaze followed the hunter as he scouted the edge of the lake and then began to drink.

kukutux eyed the hackles he had shook, the long-limbed power of him. he was wolf and cat, and perhaps like them both was raimo dangerous. 

a gentle chuff would sound from her pine-bed, a brief and silent gesture of invitation that invited the man closer if he chose, closer than he had been allowed this far. kukutux did not rise; she watched him closely with stillness upon her snow-swept countenance.