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manipulated things a little bit to fix current timeline. If it doesn't work just let me know & I'll edit! And feel free not to wait up on me.

Yaal'kali moons now had lost track of the sandy woman. She must have wandered off. That or it was the weirdness of this world he could blame. After all, he had along since his sister once hunted cursed blue deer and the fucking /dreams/.

Yet now as dawn turned to morning and still the sun did not greet them, Yaal'kali could smell the girl Goldblossom on the horizon. A howl out in the gloom, guiding her into his direction, who must have been trailing after them from their move from the great lake to the forest. She was late but had already completed her first march.

Another howl, this time for the attention of brother chieftain. Cen

[howlings tore cen from his tracking. his silverwhite wife roamed, and he trailed at a distance which gave her freedom. but the demands of the band fell to him, and when his brother called, the chieftain snorted into the teeth of the wind and turned to answer. he found yaal'kali feathered with scent and grinned. have you found a woman after all? he teased, nipping at the frozen air with a lilted look to his single eye.]

howlings tore cen from his tracking.
his silverwhite wife roamed, and he trailed at a distance which gave her freedom. but the demands of the band fell to him, and when his brother called, the chieftain snorted into the teeth of the wind and turned to answer.
he found yaal'kali feathered with scent and grinned. have you found a woman after all? he teased, nipping at the frozen air with a lilted look to his single eye.

A laughter from his mouth at his brother's words and he shakes his head in agreement to the disapproval in the woman's words. Healer and midwife, brother. And if calving seasons would soon come, it meant the 'calving' of Saatsine, too.

[the woman spoke. cen eyed her with the remaining stare left to him, but looked toward yaalk'ali to translate what he thought was irritation. nudging his brother hard as if to say, 'another time,' the chieftain addressed the one who followed. you know ah -- child-birth? woman's blood? both things stirred in him faint feelings of nausea; there was a reason that lanzadoii men stayed away from the snow shelter. put to mind of his mate, cen waited.]

the woman spoke. cen eyed her with the remaining stare left to him, but looked toward yaalk'ali to translate what he thought was irritation. nudging his brother hard as if to say, 'another time,' the chieftain addressed the one who followed. you know ah -- child-birth? woman's blood? both things stirred in him faint feelings of nausea; there was a reason that lanzadoii men stayed away from the snow shelter.
put to mind of his mate, cen waited.