"Ah yes, I am sorry Hendrik Gellmann. I was paying for these young women here and the convalescant men. Shadya yn Hayder keeps the funds for travel for the rest of us," Lasair points to indicate Shadya.
[SBLOCK=Sylvan]"I see...so it is similar in a way. So wait, if you married someone else, and then that man's spirit-brother married another young woman, and then her spirit-sister married another, and so on, would that not become eventually unwieldy? Or does there exist an upper limit? And is it possible to have more than one spirit-sister if three or more children are born on the same day?"
"Thalassa...I think that comes from this language, Sylvan. We have that word among my people too, but it means something completely different. It is the mythical source of all water. I think what we referred to as Thalassa is called here 'The Tower of Water', and it exists far in the north. As followers of the water, is that a pilgrimage your people make, to the lands of water?"[/SBLOCK]