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"Then it's wild?"
"Hawk settled him down. He's a good horse. There was a whole pack of them. Hawk knew just where to find them. You should have seen him catch him. I thought he was a goner, the way that horse drug him about, but he managed to mount him and had the horse settling down in no time at all."
"Were you hurt?" She asked looking at him
"Skinned a little."
"I'll doctor you after we eat." She told him.
He nodded.
"Since we only have horses, we will walk them part way, using one to carry food supplies. If one of the children needs to ride, they can." Hawk told her. "For it will be a long journey."
She nodded. "It is good you found him. We had two horses in the barn, but the Indians took them."
"They would never leave horses." Hawk chuckled. "That reminds me, I will also teach you many of the customs of my people, so you will not be a stranger when we get there. You will learn much from both worlds and be all the smarter for it."
They ate then Jane Ann curled up in Hawk's lap and went to sleep. Hawk didn't balk or seem uncomfortable. He kissed her brow and smiled at Eve.
"Want me to put her down?" Eve asked.
"Not yet, I enjoy holding her." Hawk smiled at her. "I can hardly wait to have more."
Rubbing her stomach, she smiled. "It might be sooner than you think, at the rate we are going."
He smiled at her.
"She has really taken to you and Matthew too!"
"I am glad. We will make a fine family."
; "I'm so happy Hawk. Not just for us, but the kids too. They really haven't had much of a family and this will be so good for them. The fact that you include them in everything makes me so happy. I cannot tell you how much."
Hawk frowned at her as Matthew went to get some worms for fishing.
"Why do you frown, aren't you happy?"
"More than I can say," He tried to smile. "But I worry how long we will be happy when everyone shames us and shuns us. For that will happen many times. By the whites and the Indians."
"Don't worry so much, it will only makes us stronger."
"You are right…it will!"
"If we come across white people, maybe you should hide?" She suggested.
"Hide, as though I am ashamed?"
"No, so they don't try to kill you. For I can't hide my feelings for you. Every woman in that camp knew how I felt about you, back there…The old woman told all of them. But Sootka said she saw it in my eyes when we talked. I didn't know it was there. I only knew that something had changed in me."
"It's hard to hide something that powerful." He smiled.
He nodded with an understanding smile. "You must learn to not show your feelings so much. You must practice looking at me with a frown, as though you don't want me to make love to you."
She smiled warmly at him. "That seems impossible, especially after last night, Hawk. This is all so new to me. Yet what I feel is good and pure and I will not be ashamed of loving you. No matter what. I love you with all my heart. How can I not show it?"
"And I you, but we must learn how to get along with others too. When we get to my camp, I don't know how they will feel toward you. My feelings won't have changed, but…they…Besides that, they will not totally accept me either. But to show up after all this time with a white woman and her children, they might not be too happy to see us."
