Moonsong Glacier crystophora

for all the talk she had overheard from the women's circle, and what she had heard from dutch, and what she could piece together with her precocious little mind, marriage wasn't everything but a lot of people focused on it.

sulukinak wished she could understand what it meant, to be married. to be husband. it sounded like a binding, or a promise; it held that sort of ritualistic mystique to it.

dutch promised that he would never let a wife come between them - and sulukinak took that to mean, physically drive her off. until that moment she had her suspicions and then dutch spoke so plainly about it.

i am not going anywhere. that was her own promise.