Ocean's Breath Plateau [m] Tell me, when the party ends, will you still love who I am?

he filled himself with tullik; he had not yet spoken to her of marina, wanting the women to speak among themselves before any choice was made. but he continued to hunt for marina, continued to visit her lodge.
she had been away, surely searching, and he had often been to the glacier. chakliux packed her cache with sides of trout fished inland and found that her scent was fresher; and interwoven with that of a stranger.
he found marina staring and broken and smeared entire with the reek of a strange man; the seal hunter came close at once with great concern in his eyes "what has happened?"