Ouroboros Spine in hopes that i'd decline

i appreciate the offer, the unspoken but hangs in the air like something dreaded. ajakuluk says it must be me that preps and cures them. which, to kivaluk, makes sense. it wasn't much of a bride price if he didn't do the work.

kivaluk offers her a sheepish grin of apology. the last thing he wanted to do was reject spending more time with her because he enjoyed her company.

bride price is gifts that i collect to offer my potential bride and family for the right to marry her ...if she accepts. kivaluk explains. ajakuluk tells me to wait until the frostthaw to begin looking for a bride. i have earned the title kingullimik., so all that is left right now is to work on my bride price. he offers with a small grin.

the whole thought makes him a bit nervous: if only because until kukutux had brought it up to him romance and marriage had been the furthest things from his mind. not even a true consideration until that point in time. but now that it is, it consumes a part of his waking hours, leaving him to try ( and fail ) at imagining what married life might be like, what his wife might be like.