Firefly Glen (PHE) Chicken charmers.

"the women," chakliux said quietly, unable to keep the fatherly affection from his gaze as he glanced toward the little pup. "my scars, my strength, they are all to be chosen. when she says yes, i build a lodge for her and a new cache. but it belongs to her, and everything within it, and our children also. i am father only so long as i am chosen."
it was their right, through his heart twinged with a true pain to think that tullik or marina would do this. it was why he had tried with great effort into giving them no reason to put him away.