Moonspear I can laugh at your jokes, convince you to take me home

it would be easy for chakliux to blame her. 
but who he blamed was himself: for his lack of readiness. for resenting her. for not loving them as they grew inside his wife's body.
and now two lay dead, and nasamik was beside herself with devastation.
"no," he said aloud, then cut off, eyes caught by the movement of the latest child.
"nasamik ..." the seal hunter mumbled, reaching with tremulous arms to draw their baby toward him, toward her. "nasamik, look."