Moonspear Like the sea, I'm constantly changing from calm to ill

"what is 'step dad?'" kukutux inquired quietly when he had finished. she thought she might puzzle out what it meant, but unsure of the true limits to the term, was prepared to allow bronco his explanation. fennec. in some ways it brought her to mind of the endings to words in her own tongue, and she was at once endeared. 

the brush of his tongue upon her lip had compelled the duck into a long pause; she was still unused to the familiar gestures of affection and rank within moonspear. to her such contact remained forbidden, and she would consider her reaction to it at another time. "will she stay for a time?" the duck asked softly. bronco spoke highly of this niviaksrak; it would be good to see so promising a warrior with a wife before the season ended.