Ocean's Breath Plateau Buried alive inside my dreams, but it was all a fake-out

his eyes moved toward marina. did she ask this? 
chakliux did not know why he had hesitated.
"nasamik may come back. tullik is not ready to be first wife, and yet she is this to me. would you be third, marina?" he asked quietly. "is it your want to be a third, not a first? you are a woman with children. any man would want you in his lodge."
a breath, exhaled. "but i meant to prove myself all the same, this, for you."
and now he held her gaze.