Ouroboros Spine Hunter, Hunter

"not only unmarried women lie with traders. such a child is important and would bring status to the hearth of his mother's husband." kukutux had long been aware that the customs of her people and that which was done here were quite different. and yet she still marveled.

rodyn asked a question next which gave her pause. "not many traders care," moonwoman said plainly. "they belong to the village of their birth and their mother. but sometimes when a son has seen nine or twelve moons, the man who is his father will take him away from the ulaq of his mother, and teach him to also be trader."

kukutux nodded. she too thought of qadira. "if you are husband and trader, your wife must understand that women in other villages will choose you. if you are husband, you must understand that a wife will not want to share you in this way. if you are a man who wants more than one wife, then you must show you can build and hunt for two ulax there is much involved."

she gestured to the skin, now cleaned of most gristle. "we will lift it and put it into the lake. it will be washed there. fish will help us to finish."