Bramblepoint [m] the body

Sialuk was not so surprised that he did not yet take a wife. He was young yet, with many years to find a woman and pay her bride price. The life of a travler was one she had taken at his age, and Sialuk did not regret her time learning of other cultures. Without that journey, she would not have known the life of taking many lovers, husbands, and wives. Much of what she had learned had become the basis for her own village.

A smile pulled at her mouth when he asked after her children. Four: Maggak, a girl from my own body, and Acrux, a boy from the body of my fiance. I was mother also to two boys of my sister: Panuk and Rolayne. She still did not know if Rolayne would return to Moontide to be with his father, or if he would stay in Moonspear. Either choice would mean speaking with Rodyn.