Boartusk Heights pardesi mere yaara, vaada nibhaana

the han was well fortified and as such, required less attention along the byways.

it was for this reason satsu became lost in her wandering; climbing a rise which was, by happenstance, not within kyn-dono's control.

drawn forth by urges, some which satsu did not yet understand; she discovered within herself a new physicality as she ranged up the naked hill.

there came a strong smell, a clattering—
as satsu reached the precipice of one rise or another, she saw.

the wedge-shaped creature, low-slung, toothy in a way she had never seen before; nearby it, an elder wolf rounding away from it.

panic beating in her breast for the man.