Whitebark Stream düsternis

"i do not think so," the man said more gruffly than he had meant, though he softened with apology in the next. "i am told vintersbane has many children this year. he vould not vant to leave them for a message. i vill repeat anything you vish and more slowly. but it is important that this is carried back."
he had asked for all of duskfire, and it was this girl who had come. mahler was unsure he himself could stand upon the borders of the glacier and be faced with stigmata's degree of success. it was a privately toxic thought, one never utterable. "i vill come to see him myself vonce i have searched the taiga a vhile longer."