Bramblepoint Rose petals

The dark shape listened intently.

Before Germanicus had even finished his response, Crowfeather could feel his eyes watering with the pressure of his next query.

Do- do some wanderers- do some take a man for a wife?

There was a choking sensation in his throat, pressure so tight that he had thought the life to be sucked out of him. In the Starsea, no man sought to take another man as his mate. It was a waste of their blood and their need to keep the stars alight in the skies. It was also their primary reason for arranging pairs.