CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE
The feast and hunt is a special festival of the Shadowscale clan that happens once in a solar cycle.
The air smells of excitement and burning wood. Even though it's cold, big fires keep everyone warm. The full moon shines down on everything, and loud laughter fills the air.
Sanaya had told Faelyn about this event before, but it's not what Faelyn thought it would be.
Faelyn looks around at all the male and females gathered here. Her eyes are wide with shock and curiosity.
The strong males sit around their fires eating wild boar and bread. Their mates sit on their laps, keeping them warm.
Faelyn soon realizes this hunt isn't about animals or food at all. The air is thick with the smell of heat and want.
Some distances away, mateless males are fighting each other in a circle of blood-stained stone.
