The Bracken Woods [m] marrow sliver

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"the people of this place do not know lanzadoii. they will not know what you say. so when we meet them, be silent." cen did not mention that he too had no idea the language of these wilds and their inhabitants. 

"i have heard from the eastern lanzadoii that these ones devour wolf flesh." he ate a piece of dried meat, then another. they had been walking for two days, as he had promised. @Red Leaf had carried their foodstuffs, the pieces of bone, rolled into the sleeping-skins which doubled now as bundles. cen had carried the caribou teeth and the sacred dewclaws of the forelegs. "i have heard also that some are soft, but that their men are cruel," he lied, embellishing the very few things he thought he had overheard.

but now he gestured to a halt, and ate ravenously. when he had finished, the caribou hunter stalked away to inspect the pool of ice and its frozen center, leaving his wife to lay out the skins for now. they would move in some hours. the bracken woods were thinning, and he felt he could smell the frozen grass of open land more clearly now.