Ocean's Breath Plateau auntspeak

matteo was quiet on the subject of his family. chakliux saw a boy who had been apart from them for too long, a boy who had even perhaps grown up apart from guidance.
he rolled his scarred shoulders and did not ask more questions. "i invite you to stay in the lodge of my wives, with raiyuk. you can be his lodge-brother. when you want, eat with us. hunt with us. perhaps we make you a seal hunter too, yes?" chakliux beamed. but this was not a requirement.
"we will need to make a new space, for marina, but there will be a sleeping-place for you also." 
it was not a requirement, but the boy sharing raiyuk's age had endeared him to the marked man. with no mother or father, why should he not come into the lodge of family?