Ouroboros Spine in hopes that i'd decline

maybe, kivaluk drawls, contemplative; ears fluttering back against his skull in thought. ajakuluk will let me make those changes to my bride dowry and the courtship. it sounds better, too, than price. calling it a bride price makes him feel like his future wife is meant to be his property and everything in him rebels against that idea. she didn't say i couldn't make changes to it while courting.

but first, the frosts needed to thaw and then there was the whole: finding a potential wife to court.

which was a bit of a daunting task but for now he forces himself to focus upon what he could do now: keep working on things he could offer his possible bride.