Ocean's Breath Plateau kavrak ∷

"i will go. but not yet. my wives may be pregnant. my son is healing and must become a man before spring. but i will go, moon woman. and i will tell you."
a barter made. one accepted.
he grabbed up the lichen and dragged it toward himself.
a cruel, cold curiosity grabbed at chakliux.
"who was the boy you once married?" he knew she would not answer. the sunshine people spoke no name of the dead, and she would be a seal hunter woman if she had become his wife.