Ouroboros Spine Trust I seek, and I find in you.

hmm! that one!

"seal hunters do not court, not in the way the sunshine people practice," moonmother explained. "he will never have only one wife, nor will he keep from lying with other women even after he is married. they accept it because they are free to do the same. he is handsome, aya! but he is not for a heart who wishes never to share. he took a wife from among us, but chased after my daughters. then he married a woman from the mountain and took her to the sea! now i am hearing he has a second."

a soft look of remembering came over the moonduck; "i say all these things. but i almost married a boy of the seal hunters. i would have learned to grow accustomed to it. he swore me as first wife," kukutux added with a sardonic arch of her brow toward ciri.

"i am glad for aiolos."

ciri would be glad for a steady man as well.