Have you considered taking your catch to the Earth Kingdom and selling it there?" Kanna asked. "You might make more money that way."
Pakku paused in sorting his catch to glare at his betrothed. "It's three days sailing to the nearest Earth Kingdom port, and that's if the winds are favorable. I can't leave my mother alone for that long."
"She wouldn't be alone," Kanna said. "She'd have me."
Pakku's glare hardened. "We aren't married yet. You shouldn't be living in my house."
"I don't have to live in your house. I don't live in your house now, and I still see your mother almost every day."
"When I said alone, I meant without a man." Pakku's voice was soft, almost apologetic, but his eyes dared Kanna to disagree.
"You've lived with your mother for how many years? And you think she needs to man to take care of her?"
"She's not young any more," Pakku said. "She can't take care of herself the way she could when I was a child. And besides, it isn't respectable for her–"
"When did you start caring about respectable?" Kanna demanded.
"When I grew up."
