Ocean's Breath Plateau sisterblood

chakliux smiled softly, about to explain that he wished her to pluck the gull, when a vaguely familiar voice sounded at the mouth of the lodge.
"phox! you are brother to towhee, yes?" the seal hunter greeted.
marina's tension struck like lightning in the air. it was too soon to have a man close, even a man known to him. only raiyuk and himself visited the lodge these days.
just outside the entrance, the good poles of the trees formed a shelter for the space that might be called a porch anywhere else, but was only a smaller clearing. they would be free from the rain here, he and phox. "go lie down with tullik, wife," he murmured, knowing marina would not understand all the words but hoping she would grasp his meaning all the same.
chakliux grabbed the gull and joined the man before he truly entered. "my wives wish to sleep," he said. "i will prepare this here." a mouthful of feathers were spat into the air, onto the dry ground. "you did not stay in moonspear?"