NEXT CHAPTER SNEAK PEEK:
They Do Not Move Together
"They fight," he muttered, his voice controlled though the pressure of his strokes turned harsher. "That is nothing new."
"This is not that, husband," she told him low and thoughtful as she turned another shaft between her fingers. "They do not move. They circle. They avoid."
"Lo'ak avoid's Neteyam... Neteyam avoid's Lo'ak," he said, glancing at her for a fleeting moment before retuning to his blade. "I've seen it."
"And Vaelira," she said, her voice softening further.
Her hands lowered, dropping her arrow to her stomach, breathing in.
"She grows quiet," she spoke with a mother's ache.