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Meleys watched in quiet moments. The words of the young Crying Wind woman now made Saatsine. The words of her young brother, Chieftan in heart and home. There is happiness here, truth in this, which she had not seen in the look of her brother in quite some time. Many times Meleys would doubt the decisions made by her brother's chosen lovers, yet this day Meleys finds hope she had not felt before.

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How visible now the falling trail of her tears as Cen’s vow is given breath. His maw is hot, disarming, leaving the silver with no presence of mind to do anything but stand and be kissed. A soft mouth, when the rest of him is so hardened.
Who else might she give this to but Cen? Who else would she follow into the world and all its experiences? All resistance leaves, then—she feels it go in veins that open to him.
There leaps a mild, willing panic.
Leave now? For a quarter moon?
Between three eyes do her’s brush, the imbedded habit of responsibility drilling out this crying wind custom. No other had been informed. The chieftain could not afford to be from his band.
The leather tugs sweetly at her ankle.

[so it was done. so did iglux̂and cen become one, and his heart leapt with a sudden thrumming realization anew that he did not need to keep himself so veiled any longer. at last! he wished to shout it to the skies, and any thoughts of earlier revenge or well-kept desire was pushed aside, to the back of his mind. another time bid their contemplation; these moments were gifted to triumph, to himself and to her and to meleys, who had bound them. and sweet it was. he trusted his sister and the saatsine. the single eye filled with all of iglux̂, suffused with her loveliness, wrapped his face in pleasure and amusement at her expression. come, and here he tested its bond, their bond, with a little pull. his mouth ached for her own. come away with me, wife. honey held no pleasure even to compare to this. his smile was true; he teased iglux̂ with another gentle motion and gestured toward the open land blanketed with white. their seven days waited beyond the seeing eyes of any hunter.]

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so it was done. so did iglux̂and cen become one, and his heart leapt with a sudden thrumming realization anew that he did not need to keep himself so veiled any longer. at last! he wished to shout it to the skies, and any thoughts of earlier revenge or well-kept desire was pushed aside, to the back of his mind. another time bid their contemplation; these moments were gifted to triumph, to himself and to her and to meleys, who had bound them.
and sweet it was.
he trusted his sister and the saatsine. the single eye filled with all of iglux̂, suffused with her loveliness, wrapped his face in pleasure and amusement at her expression.
come, and here he tested its bond, their bond, with a little pull. his mouth ached for her own.
come away with me, wife.
honey held no pleasure even to compare to this.
his smile was true; he teased iglux̂ with another gentle motion and gestured toward the open land blanketed with white. their seven days waited beyond the seeing eyes of any hunter.