Rising Sun Valley takinik ⥉

the way that wylla spoke of these children said that they had not been born of her body.

kukutux wondered at this. these things were commonly done among her own people; a man who had children of different mothers was a man often with status enough in the village to support each of them. but the duck knew this was not the way of the teekon.

and so she did not ask.

"it is good to speak in a way that both a husband and wife understand," she said softly, tactfully. "will you tell me how many years you share together?" she had known aiolos for a long while but they had not shared the same hearth for many cycles of the moon. 

she hoped for this to come, however.