Ocean's Breath Plateau sweet as brandy wine

Sulukinak need not add any sentimentality of her own to the words; the panther fairly melted at the declaration, even if it wasn't news to him. He worried constantly that this would change, and so reassurance was a treasure he was unwilling to ask for but all to grateful to receive.

"Myna," he offered when Sulukinak struggled with the name. "I will ask her — but I think she will feel similarly. And I do as well — my home is where I stay with our family."

He stood a little straighter, happy enough to make the decision himself, if Sulukinak did not have a stronger opinion. There was a place that came immediately to mind.

"How about the woods where we met?" he asked her. "It is close to the seal hunters — " his eyes crinkled at the corners. "But not too close, yes? So that there will be some peace and quiet to escape to."