Blacktail Deer Plateau Some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing

Grayday does not get the hint. He does, however, deliver a somewhat absurd theory that momentarily causes Étoille to pause. It is not that he disregards the idea of any superstition, but, a curse...? 

His doubts do not show in his face. "She is a mother," he hedges, "though her children are nearly grown." The Rauna does not know their ages exactly, but they are around choupinou's -- though, he realises guiltily, he does not really know her age either. 

While only a moment ago he'd been eager to leave, the titan cannot resist: "how many?" curious as to what could have lead the otherwise stable-seeming leader to come to such an absurd conclusion. Perhaps more than just his young wife has vanished.