Moonspear tatee

"ah, well." and here his lips were fluted in humour and perhaps a wistfulness. "sialuk wants more seal hunter blood in her village. when she calls for me, i go," he explained, setting his brightberry eyes on njord for a moment to see that the other man understood.
"i do not want to leave," chakliux admitted a moment later, scarred shoulders tensing and then lapsing into their ease once more. "but if nasamik is not happy, then i will not stay. yet i think i will take a second wife, and give her my half of the lodge."
this was a new thing, but not to chakliux, who had long planned for it. "meerkat told to me that stingray also, has left the village. when i go there, i will watch over him, njord. a boy becoming man needs other men to recognize what he has become but not to be a father who he might fail."