Ouroboros Spine Carry it home

do not match length lmao got carried away

"if you were hunter who wanted a wife, you would go to the ulaq of her father and say with a loud voice that you wished to marry his daughter. the whole village would hear your words. it is a time of importance for this family. if she agrees, the father and his wife and their child would sit down with you and you would offer."

"skins, meat, stories. beautiful things we do not have here in moonglow. things you made good trade for, far from this village. medicines. paints. bones for throwing."

her face was amused.

"she has last choice. final word. with her father and mother, if she agrees, will tell you what you must bring. sometimes it will take many hands of time to gather. sometimes it will be only one thing, but something which is rare. and much of it will belong to her father's hearth. you take a skilled gatherer, a medicine-maker, and someone who will give you children. but many of those things will be her own, for her to use in your home."

"you will bring what is asked back to the ulaq of her father. she will go with you to your home then, and be your wife from this moment on."

she laughed. "there are many other ways to do this thing. if you are young and she is young, your families will agree that you should live with at the home of her family for a season. you will share a roof and sleeping-place. you will learn what it is to be husband and wife. if you fight often, her family will send you back. if you get along, then when she has her twenty-four moons, she will go to be your wife in your village."

"or perhaps you are hunter who seeks to make a marriage with a woman who has proven she can give sons. she will ask for more. and you must build a suitable ulaq before she will agree, for she is sacred and already mother."