"It is good to hold time for celebration and for mourning both." He says, remembering that even some marriages in his own culture are morbid affairs, "It is much different from my own culture. Maybe at one time we had time for get-togethers and gatherings, maybe they were before my time."

And his father's time, though the Khatanghe began dying out well before his father's reign over his kinfolk, it's natural that things are lost. Perhaps he should have spent more time consulting Aspity about such matters, but really, he had almost no time to begin with in those two weeks.