Ouroboros Spine The seas part when they hit the floor.

The offer brought a brightening to his eye, before the squint and scowl returned. Her charity could not be purely altruistic; the world, his world, did not work like that.

Rather than speak again he let his feelings of confusion and jealousy fester. He turned and bundled himself up while facing the shadows, only following wherever the girl went with the tremble of his ears.

He would not ask for anything. What he wanted, he would take. Nuak easily absolved himself of any guilt by fostering the anger inside of himself - knowing only what was taught to him by the beasts of Ursus.

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