Hoshor Plains allotment

there were many things she wished to learn. the hunt upon land was one, and would be valuable if she was to be of use to this conclave or another. the way the women here could find useful plants and make things of them, was another. the last was of an intimate sort of knowledge she might yet glean from ariadne, or kukutux who she was more comfortable with; the understanding of what went-on between a man and woman.

ariadne was cavalier about it. sulukinak was curious but also afraid of the nanuk man, and so she would choose to deliberate rather than ask outright.

except, maybe dutch would have answers. sulukinak was unafraid to be candid. she had never known shame and did not encounter it when she opened her mouth again to say, pairings of man and woman interests me. as calm as the open and cloudless sky, without a blemish of awkwardness. i have seen it happen, and heard it plenty.

she props herself on elbows, watching her friend's face. can that be taught? it is not like hunting - there is no chase - but it is like fighting. my brothers rarely fought but it looked the same.