Frostfire Ridge sedem

For seven days, they would have only each other, and yet even as they set a course for a place where none could disturb them, he couldn’t help but wonder what Senka felt about the entire process. A bride she would be for six days and in seven, she would be a wife. He too would cast aside his identity as a single man. A father he would be- but he would be a husband now, too.

Travel consumed the majority of their first day together, as if it was a projection of the days to come in their life together as caribou hunters. When they reached the ridge, they found their freedom and at last- the time to rest, and begin to spend time together as man and wife.

He smiled at the sound of his name. Senka, He responded. He was reminded then of something Sun Eater had told them. We’ll need a new name for when we go back, he said, but as such was a chore that was important but not urgent, he shrugged, and moved closer, to sweep her into his embrace with a faint laugh. Though we have lots of time to figure that out. He said, pressing a kiss to her cheek to imply that they had more important things to do with their honeymoon time.