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It was all the invitation Sobo needed, even though he still worried he would be reprimanded once he shared.

I looked up to him, mamá, he said, frowning at the ground as they walked. He be a man in Sapphique, but respected. I looked up to him, but he has so little regard, he does not even introduce his bride to us. Njord had done the bare minimum of getting permission from the leaders to court Meerkat and bring her home, but his efforts stopped there. It was like his former children did not exist to him. That was how Sobo saw it, anyway.

A da should care more dan dat, he opined. In a way, it was unfair to Meerkat as well. Njord hadn’t made any effort to prepare his children for how she would change their relationship with their da. That she had been received pretty well by everyone but him was lucky.