Ocean's Breath Plateau oil lamps

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tullik's pretty face was vibrant with attentiveness as she ate and laughed and joined in their talk. chakliux did not watch outright how she gazed almost thoughtfully upon dutch, but he could see the appreciation and hid a laugh in his cheek —! he grinned at raiyuk and nodded toward matteo, proud that the young man had collected himself and joined them. 
dutch spoke of the bison hunt; chakliux listened raptly to both his words and those of raiyuk, who explained how the hunters had been divided. and how it had almost been spoiled! "it is a good thing the seal hunters were there," he exulted. "without your teeth, much meat would have been lost," he grunted in pleasure to the boys, believing it. knowing it. 
what was a desert? his eyes were amused on dutch, interested; he laughed at tullik's insistence and looked at her with admiration. "no moose can stand against a mountain-walker, stone-wife," he teased her; then desire lit his gaze for a moment, and for a moment he was silent, taking in the good scents of the lodge and how his body was warming to tullik, to marina; he found her eyes and looked with open admiration at her face and the shape of her shoulders.
"what is a desert?" he decided to ask. "and what were these other hunters?" he asked of the panther, glancing in time to see marina pulling her gaze from the moonsong man.
ah — and the amusement welling again as he felt the unsaid interest of his wives deepen. he wondered if dutch knew yet that he was intriguing in more than one way.