Ocean's Breath Plateau gransister

he wondered what his wife would be like; but he did not wonder long. it wasn't something he was planning. it was a long way down the road, so to speak, and was only interesting to the boy for as long as his father entertained the thought with him.
first son to first wife to first lodge.
he was smiling until chakliux asked for the recitation.
i am raiyuk, son of of nasamik, and here he felt his mouth too dry to speak, as if his throat was a hole made of ice and his tongue a seal ducking beneath it. it was not a long moment. nasamik, out of kesuk and sukari. he prided himself over his lineage of course, but he was a wounded boy, and felt more pull towards the names of his father's people. first son of chakliux — out of waking shark and shaman k'os.
his people.
soon, he would be a seal hunter.