Lake Rodney [m] forever

For a long while, she showered him with kisses, yips, and soft toying bites upon his coat. Sialuk circled him, smelling every single hair upon his body. The only man who came close to the wave of emotion she felt for Argent was Chakliux, and the distance between those two amounts was quite great. Despite his time away from the spear, gathering the bride price, Sialuk knew she still desperately wished for him to be her husband.

When finally her ministrations dwindled, she searched for his eyes, knowing that important news was first to be delivered to him. He is safe and healing, but Acrux was attacked, she said. It was not what she wished to speak of, not what she wished to waste time on when there were more pressing matters, but he needed to know. It was his son—their son—and she wished for him to be prepared when he made the trip back to the village.