Ouroboros Spine innocence

"he knows," she repeated in confirmation. her gaze strayed across the expanse as if searching for the man who had been mentioned. "if you were ready to be married, i would believe he stayed for that purpose. to want you as a reward. you are beautiful and already skilled in many healing ways.  if he stays to build this place, he may want a wife to tend his hearth. but," kukutux went on, relief filling her jadestone eyes, "you are my sweet girl, not yet to that moon. and i am grateful for it."

there left the matter of herself, though kukutux was not without a husband. yet the more great the time that jarilo did not come down, the less she could claim his protection. it was a difficult position. "i think it is time that we allow him to show that he is what he says."

not trust, yet, but something that could be become such with time. a softening. she observed her raindrop's face for a reaction; kukutux could not force sialuk to do this thing. and all would be rendered irrelevant when her husband came down from moonspear.

this time, however, the greenjade stare floated in the direction of the glacier, where the grey brother lay sleeping.