Northstar Vale you're so dead meat

"this woman greets you," kukutux murmured, turning jadestone eyes upon the earth. was he embarrassed that she had seen him? why did he act so, then, out where any might see?

there was no need for her formality. this place, these wilds, did not demand it. but he was still male, and she an unmarried woman. therefore kukutux found it difficult to break against her upbringing, and more easily did it come to the duck that she treat him with the utmost propriety.