Deepwood Weald histriophoca

he spoke of others; of family he knew, and of the future, in a way that showed his new-found hope.

sulukinak thought about what it might mean, bringing children here to these woods. it was far from the sea ice, far from the dark reach of terrible gods.

sedna could not reach them here.

valiant. she remembered his name, and upon speaking it she looked to her dutch man in case she was wrong. he had a sister? sulukinak wondered what she was like.

is she a mother? she refused to see the obvious: that dutch and his woman were expecting, or would be. she chose to see this sister as the reason for the topic.