Ocean's Breath Plateau ships going down, Captain

"i will do this thing," she nodded. "i know she is a friend to moonspear." that was how it had seemed, after all, though kukutux would not mind any correction, lulled by his gentle voice and the peaceful nature of the shelter he had found, intrigue budded suddenly, sharply, in her gravid body.

"how do you know to serve another, as if you were wife?" horrified in the next second that she had insulted aiolos, the duck's eyes widened and shame burnt upon her cheeks. "you are not wife but ... you tend as if i was a husband," she finished, and then bit the inside of her jaw in anger that the words had betrayed her a second time.