Moonsong Glacier sistermine

this lifted the seal hunter's head for a moment, the idea that ariadne had spoken of him. he was grasped by a great desire for her; he turned his head to the places he had last seen the moonwolf, leaning into the touch of the wind which now carried her mark.
when he saw the meat, chakliux realized how hungry he had been; he ate methodically and without speaking for some time, having hunted many days for the monster.
"i have failed." the story came out in terse pieces; how marina had been attacked, how he and kilgitsuk and alaric and the woman had pursued. how the scent had been lost. how for more days they had looked.
the evil one had escaped.
hatred flared in his heart. "so now i must go home to my wives and my son and say, the husband and father of your lodge cannot protect you." he tossed a bone aside and sat down with a hard face turned upward into the icy air.