Ocean's Breath Plateau kavrak ∷

when kukutux lifted her eyes, he was there.

he had grown older but no less handsome, and in the cut of his scars she saw what her long-ago betrothed might have become: a proud man of a proud people.

"your face shines," she said in his seal hunter words.

she waited for surprise to show in chakliux; she lifted her chin.

"once long ago i learned the secret ways of your seal hunter women. i was to be married into your tribe. i offer a trade."