Ocean's Breath Plateau rosmarus

share wives? this thought had never entered her mind before, but she held it now, and she thought of the visits to the lodge and the women there. how even now dutch would go to the lodge to visit his brother chakliux, and sometimes return smelling of women and children.

it was hard enough to have watched her man with simbelmyne, or to hear him talk of her in that familiar way. what if he had other wives? what if he shared his women with chakliux? her features darkened with a stronger doubt as she processed this possibility.

cen warned her.

i am not his wife. he cannot take a piece of me, or share me. besides, their numbers were so low, unless he were to give sulukinak away to valiant. she felt her stomach drop.

he is a kind man. he holds many stories, and is very wise. but he does not have the spirits with him - not in the way of my mother. she was reminded of his horror.

a pause, as sulukinak regards the gifts from cen.

do your people know of the harvest? her voice is small, as if to be careful, or to hold fast to her nerves.