Firefly Glen (PHE) Chicken charmers.

"perhaps when they are older. suppose a wife puts away her husband, severs their bond. if she takes a new man but the children are half-grown and do not like him, they may choose their first father. no one will tell them another thing."
the nuance of this too, intrigued chakliux, who had only seen a few husbands ever divorced by their wives. should raiyuk have rejected him, would he have become sunshine? learned the lineage of nasamik's new man?
for a moment, chakliux wondered why towhee asked. she was a woman with independence and her own networking of family; she did not need a husband.
perhaps she wanted one.
or maybe she spoke only to be polite.
he did not know, but he enjoyed the sharing of words all the same.