Sea Lion Shores 'Cause they know who is righteous, what is bold, so I'm told

"Yeah, well, maybe it should make me more mad than it does," he reasoned, stretching his paw out to block off the line of ants for just a moment before he turned his attention back to Acheron. "I just try not to think about her. Maybe she's happy, wherever she ended up." Secretly, he did hope she was happy. His mother had never, ever been happy, as long as he knew her. So maybe she'd found her own Acheron to enjoy life with.

Acheron had never had sex? Was that weird? Was it weirder that Tuvaq had? What if that was a topic that came up between them again? 

"Then you're probably a better wolf than most," Tuvaq said with a small smile, though he already knew that to be true about the freckled boy. "Thanks for being cool about it. I don't know why I was so afraid to tell you." With how he'd reacted, Tuvaq felt a little silly about being nervous in the first place.