I wasn’t ready for it and he didn’t have the stability to counter my wild flailing. Our intention was merely to seek out the region beyond the mountains to the West that Jona had spoken of. I wondered if his natural instincts weren’t more powerful here, too. It isn’t so much finding them as pretending not to find them. “Let me think, seems I recall you guys telling that trader way back that you won me in cards.”
“You heard that? We’ll try to solve that little problem.” With that, he pressed forward and fully into me, our pubic hair mixed together. He likes that game.”
“He cheats.”
“Wolf cheats? An abundance of wildlife to hunt, they were off to take care of themselves. We haven’t lost a father, yet. I say we made up our minds, but there was never any real discussion or decision. She didn’t know it but we were close to her older siblings. Herve put water near the fire to warm and Dreng had a pile of old, but clean cloths.
