Ocean's Breath Plateau rosmarus

again she felt something weaken in her spirit, to know her brothers were still lost, and that she was alone.

he spoke poorly of seal hunters and briefly sulukinak felt doubt; not for him, not even for herself, but for her dutch man who had found comraderie with a seal hunter's family. it was the sort of fickle opinion of a child, which she felt like often.

this man was closer to being family than any other she knew, which sulukinak could not help but adhere herself to. even dutch, as a father or brother figure, was not truly her blood, nor did he understand the everdark the way this man might.

there is a man, dutch, who is my friend. he is chief to my village. we came to visit friends when our own village shrank—and now he has a wife. these things flowed from sulukinak.

so did an exasperated tone, almost like annoyance.

the caribou-man has many wives, too.