Your father appears bored as he meets with the anthropologist and his students. Your father appears this way for two reason. The first is that his apparent boredom is a habitual and ingrained trading tactic. If your father's trading partner feels he is losing your father's interest, he will often make unsolicited increases in his trading offers.
The second reason your father is acting bored is because he really is bored. Your father has already gained all the material advantage for your tribe that he can from allowing the anthropologists and 'his students direct access to the tribe. Now he has to listen to the anthropologist's requests, then lay down the ground rules for the interaction between these humans and members of your tribe. Your father is politely nodding while he listens, but you know in his head he's already planning a dozen different projects for the tribe's winter camp.
You're trying to act bored, too, but you're finding it very difficult to do so. This is the first year that you've been allowed to assume even a partial leadership role, and you don't want to screw things up. Besides, you're very interested in these humans whom you are going to be able to have sustained direct interaction with. You're especially interested in a female human in the group who looks to be about your age. She's shapely, attractive, and comes from a place called
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