Moonsong Glacier inugagulliq ⋒

how she liked this man!

kukutux meant to put his name into the ears of ariadne as soon as she had passed from this path. the pasts of kigipigak and chakliux worried her, bored her. why should her daughter pick from disloyal men when one, then two, new men of good heart would come to moonsong?

a romantic, a hunter who wished to find love rather than it be brought to him. in this was valiant not ready at all, to accept what he could not change with his own strength.

sometimes love must be met. sometimes love must be matched.

dutch charmed moonwoman with his contemplation.

and he asked for little. vague, romantic and deeply so perhaps in a manner he did not recognize: a boy's dream which was so great that to sequester it into words would be a disservice.

dutch, too, kukutux decided, was waiting.

"this can be had in many ways," moonwoman ventured, eyes alight.