Duskfire Glacier NulettuKutik

No.

The northerner faltered, recoiling slightly in surprise.

Meerkat went on to speak and say that she had already made it perfectly clear. When he believed she would stop and leave him, she continued further. She spoke of someone else who was better than he. She had found someone who was better. Issorartuyok blinked at her, head shaking.

You have already found a husband?

It had only been…

When the northerner thought back on it, he realized that he had spent a large portion of his time tending to the young ones in their village. He had worked with Ensio after the boy’s parents had died. He had worked to train Veteran in hopes that he would be a good man. Issorartuyok had even taken young Heda and given her a new home with their people. In addition to this, he had journeyed out to find them a new homeland where they would not starve.

And Meerkat had replaced any prospect they may have had in loving each other.

A bitterness swelled within him. Issorartuyok did not give up so easily.