Northstar Vale and life gets hard but these last days been meanin’ more

she drew up sharply, breaking off another cry as the man's eyes blazed hotly in her direction. first instinct spoke; she was his superior. but kukutux had been raised in submission to the opposite sex; his presence coupled with his anger was enough to make the little duck quail.

and so she collapsed; and so she hid her face with forelegs and crouched as would any woman of the isle if a man had raised his voice to them.