Ocean's Breath Plateau dentalium

chakliux wanted to ask red leaf if it was the fault of a father if a boy died upon a seal hunt. would she stand before him and blame him for leading a son to follow in the ways of oil father? but he bit back the words, to hear how very sorrowful her voice was in the face of this young one whom she had loved and lost.
the plume coming down over the boy ended the words, and chakliux pulled away from the denmouth. "all right, red leaf."
his voice was solemn, and then the tall shadow of the seal hunter passed over the shell-path and was gone, over the rise and back into the mainland of moontide.
she would stay! she would not leave! the pain upon her lovely face rent him, and he paced in anger to find the leaders of the plateau village.
for what would happen to cen, red leaf might come to hate chakliux. and yet he must accept this now, for he could keep no secret of the caribou hunter's great wrongs.