Moonsong Glacier sunsister

Raiyuk seemed displeased, somehow, by the estimation of his future size. Wasn't it every boy's dream to surpass his parents in size? Perhaps it was a cultural difference — the panther filed this away for the future.

His attention was quickly stolen away by talk of these sea-faring women. Though he had been born in the mountains, something of his father's costal blood. There was something about a woman come straight from the sea that he found quite appealing. 

"My grandfather married a woman like this," he told the two men. "They called her spirit walker — and she bore him three children that carry her saltblood.

But perhaps they ought to talk of something other than the bearing of children. Dutch did a good job of pretending to be oblivious when he asked after this, "Coronation? For one of the moonwoman?" Had it been Ariadne's? Surely not in the desert!