( And does she... command him, then? Truly, what is the knowledge that the women of his life possess, so intent to commandeer him? No matter.
She sets course first, and he concedes her the trajectory — but dallies a few heartbeats longer to trip Bichen's blade free of her sheathe and, pressing her cut against the tree, to slowly, tenderly skin the sliver of bark that carries the closest marks of claws. Their proof removed, he rolls it in a tight scroll and binds it with frayed rope, then slips it in his travel pouch, for keeping now and study later.
All the better that they should interrogate what evidence presents itself so readily before them. )
Wolves roamed on our arrival. Each night thereafter. Perhaps starved.
( A simple, innocuous conclusion. And yet, darker on his tongue, like charcoal: ) Or hunting.
( The difference lies only in this: they still do not know who is the prey. )
no subject
( And does she... command him, then? Truly, what is the knowledge that the women of his life possess, so intent to commandeer him? No matter.
She sets course first, and he concedes her the trajectory — but dallies a few heartbeats longer to trip Bichen's blade free of her sheathe and, pressing her cut against the tree, to slowly, tenderly skin the sliver of bark that carries the closest marks of claws. Their proof removed, he rolls it in a tight scroll and binds it with frayed rope, then slips it in his travel pouch, for keeping now and study later.
All the better that they should interrogate what evidence presents itself so readily before them. )
Wolves roamed on our arrival. Each night thereafter. Perhaps starved.
( A simple, innocuous conclusion. And yet, darker on his tongue, like charcoal: ) Or hunting.
( The difference lies only in this: they still do not know who is the prey. )