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Marina was beginning to understand that there were many things she did not understand about being a wife to Chakliux — about what that meant. It had been easy to overlook in those days of grief and shame and exhaustion after she'd been attacked. Now, however — she tilted her head at him, at the bird, at the request in his eyes that she could not decipher.

The stranger's intrusion interrupted the question that had almost fallen from her lips. She blinked at him, struck immediately by his resemblance to the man who'd attacked her. It was a vague and passing resemblance at best, but nonetheless disconcerting. Marina found herself unable to speak. She shifted and looked helplessly at Chakliux, tension written in her posture.