Ocean's Breath Plateau dentalium

red leaf panicked. for a moment chakliux did not understand and was annoyed; did she not want to get away from him? then he thought of how she had flinched; ashamed, he was forced to admit to himself that he did not comprehend her fear, for he had not suffered as a woman might.
trying to think of what his wives might do, he kept his ears turned to signal that he heard.
he was silent for a long time, at last fumbling and awkward as he touched her paw with his own, and glanced toward her in reassurance. "red leaf. he does not like me. he will know i have come here." there was no time for her to plan an escape from a man who beat her for meat arrangement! "i do not want you to be torn from your family. but i do not want anything to happen to you while we wait."
a thought; he pressed tongue to teeth and considered. "i have a close companion. his name is dutch; he is — more than brother to me. his people now border moontide to the east. beyond that is moonglow, and to the south is moonspear. there are many villages with many warriors and many people, none of whom strike their wives." he searched her face, glanced at the boy. "cen has made a cousin-claim to a girl who is like a sister to dutch, i think. he has taken her away. he says you all must leave in seven weeks."
berryweave met redglow. "will you let me make a cousin-claim for you, red leaf? i know you are caribou, but if i say you are seal also, what can cen do? to strike you then would be to enrage another lineage. it would give you time."
there was very little which bound chakliux now from gathering his eldest son and the other men of his village, and going to break the man against the sharp stones of the sea. he showed to red leaf now though that he would wait, that he would hear, and tried to reassure her with a small smile.