Neeva drove them to the home on the coastline before kissing them both on the cheek and heading home. “So, only members of the tah family live here? Even if she is your grandmother?” Dornin-tah had her bag over one arm and his other arm around her waist. “Correct. The lor family has their own compound. It goes back to the days when the Adru-Skari were highly territorial.” She remembered what she had read, and it seemed that they were still territorial. The imprinting factor involved in mating meant that daughters were protected until they found a mate in clearly supervised circumstances. An Adru-Skari woman couldn’t be imprinted like Mel was. Their skin was far too thick. For them, it had to be an intimate situation, or it had to be imprinting via injection. That had been the fear for Ashur-tah. They had feared that she had been injected while unconscious. Yirka-tah and Koru-tah were waiting for them at the main entryway.
