Moonspear it's real quiet here

He was relieved when the topic seemed to bring more pleasure than trepidation, but the trepidation confirmed something for him as well. It would not be so simple to come here and settle this place, and it would not be right to simply call it Morningside when it had been and always would be something else as well. And Katmai still wasn't sure of the idea at all — but he knew he wanted to try.

"There are many," he cautioned, a faint smile curving his own dark lips. "But perhaps the first is the most complex. Will you tell me about your village?"

His eyes were bright and earnest.

"Who lived here before? What do your people celebrate? Where did you gather, and why?"

He wanted to know more about her culture, to see if it resonated at all with his own.