Firestone Hot Springs You eat us up

kukutux watched him, eyes grown more gentle as his youth showed through. he was so very young to be so tormented. it meant that many hunters in his life had failed the boy. he had been so small and so terrified in her arms, wet from the river and alone.

but it was his torment that meant kukutux must deny him. there was no answer of assent to his question. "do not come back to the village. it is no longer safe for those who wore the name of saint."

aiolos knew all of them. it was he who had given nyra and her hunters a place to rest during their wounds. it was moonwoman who had offered the scarred one a similar healing, provided that she answer for her sins.

the sun man would not be so lenient again.

kukutux had given alduin a path to the spirit world. it was they who would choose now if the boy should be redeemed or left to his torture.

the jadestone eyes were soft. the duck turned away and moved opposite the young wolf, into the forests that climbed the sloped world back to moonglow. 

her ears tilted backward to see that he did not follow.