Great Bear Wilderness Sea Born

a boy went from his village, as she would send her sons this year.

but these things could not be for mauruk. he had come and gone in another way. 

"i will send you to our kin, the caribou hunters. you will begin again. perhaps even with a new name."

a third name.

a second protection.

if mauruk was not protected, the spirit world would always call to him.

she looked into his eyes. "you may be gone for a long time, my son."