Ocean's Breath Plateau everything stays (right where you left it)

Dutch inclined his head; he did not think it wrong of her to thank him — yet he still did not want to suffer her thanks. Perhaps they would come to some understanding in time, but it was not so uncomfortable a thing that he could not learn to stand it.

"I hope to be," he said in reply, and the gravity of his features deepened as her sad story was told. He had been jealous sometimes of the seal hunter's family — but this was a reminder of how fortunate the panther really was.

"Your welcome warms me, Tullik," he assured her, his voice rough with some emotion. "My heart is soft to your husband already — but I see his love for you, and my own blooms. Just to bear witness has been a great joy to me."