Ocean's Breath Plateau cousinness

her eyes lit as if they were motes of sun over the sea, and chakliux found himself moved.
when ariadne was ready to find a man of her own, suitors would pour as they had for vaire, for sialuk. she was a daughter of sun and moon, made from power.
now she sought her own.
"i will carry you," he said in a low voice, eyes holding her own. "but i agree, he should be with us. perhaps the trader @Kilgitsuk as well. i cannot stay," and his teeth shone, for he thought of tullik and marina, and the moonspear woman. "not yet," and now his stare flashed for ariadne alone.