Ocean's Breath Plateau make a man outta you

it was odd, to be looking into a man's face, to think of how the sons inside the lodge would one day grow into men of their own, with their own scars and their own aims. he was considering these things as his arms flexed against the need to walk over, to help raiyuk begin his own space.
that his son would not seek a wife did not surprise chakliux. many boys were not yet to an age of interest in women even after they received their scars, and moontide was not a village filled with many beckoning girls who might rouse raiyuk's intrigue.
he felt almost useless as his son gathered the things he had brought; chakliux stood.
"i would like —" but he must no longer order his son as a boy!
"it would be good to hunt with the other moon villages in the summer."
by which he asked if raiyuk would help to lead this thing.
there was nothing else to say! he stood then, slowly, reluctantly.