Ocean's Breath Plateau silver sparrow

the boy agreed, but chakliux did not make a move to lift him. "yes," he told red leaf. "our lodges face the sea, but we are not so close as you are here."
and the sea would always loom closer when one was alone.
at last the seal hunter shifted and put out a paw to akiak, his eyes solemn upon red leaf. 
quietly he would guide them along the shell path to where it curved over the ridge and back into moontide's center; from there he carried the boy and supported the caribou woman until they reached the pinewood where the seal hunters made their place.
chakliux did not allow himself to consider what might occur if cen returned.