Livia blushed as he whispered in her ear, "I'm going to have my hands full with a sakish as seductive as you." As he continued on about names, all Livia said in response was, "I hope you do get a name." It was then that Ah-Vee pulled him back to the side.
"You get a tribe name when you perform one of the customs of the tribe. That is our policy for outsiders. This tells everyone that you are one of us. I suggest you do the sakish proposal." Ah-Vee looked at the boy and saw his confusion. "The sakish proposal is when you go to the far east side of the village and pick one of these," Ah-Vee pointed to her staff at the orange flowers. "Then, as we sit around the fire tonight, you tie it onto Lee-Vee's staff at the top and you propose to be her sakish. You must make her say yes before you finish tying the vines together. If you do that, Lee-Vee will give you a tribe name and you will become part of us." Ah-Vee looked at the boy to make sure he understood.
Livia noticed they had gone off to talk about something, so she turned to them, "Ah-Vee, what are you saying to him?"
"Nothing, child. Just to watch for pitfalls outside of the village," Ah-Vee remarked.
"Pitfalls? He won't have to worry about those if he goes out, he'll be with me," Livia didn't believe Ah-Vee for a second, but it was probably something she was better off not knowing. "Let's go, the feast is soon. I'll have to have Kane change into some skins." They traveled back to Livia's parents, now her and Kane's, old hut. She showed him around and took him into the bedroom. There, she grabbed out a bottom covering for Kane and an armband for his left arm. She gave him a strap with several pouches to tie around his loin cloth and some soft padded shoes. "These were my father's, but he didn't wear them much. He said they made him feel strange, so you'll practically be the first to wear them."
As Kane changed, Livia waited outside the door. When he was finished, she nearly gasped. He looked so handsome, so natural, so sexy that she didn't want him to go out. "No, I changed my mind. Put your clothes back on. I'm not having someone challenge me for you. Hurry up and change," Livia walked to him and put her hands on his bare chest. No one else in the village would know what these scars meant, and they wouldn't ask. As far as they were concerned, they were from his past self, and his past self was not the person they wanted to know.
Livia looked up Kane as her hands traveled up and down his torso. "Thank you for coming here with me, Kane. It means a lot to me."