the day was coming to a close.
kukutux was still restless. she kept close to the densite, knowing that it was too large for the children of the pack but wanting them near her all the same. just for now.
soon there would be little ones again.
The red leader returned from Grandfather's Stone. It was a place often he and
@Sialuk would pass one another up, for they both enjoyed it well.
Back at the densite, his snow is settled by Moonwoman's ulaq. Aiolos woofs a low greeting to her and as he draws near, finds his muzzle burrowing into her thick winter coat.
she rolled to embrace him, laughing playfully. "look at how many children we have," kukutux exclaimed, thinking of the cubs that had almost one year, and sialuk. and perhaps those to come.
she looked at him meaningfully. "it is my want to give you a son, aiolos."
Aiolos had bore three children. One of which he may never see again. His first and only son. Now, he had many more for which he adopted as his own and unknowingly not their father savor Sialuk of course. His tail thumped the earth as Kukutux spoke of them all.
A son?
He mused, a playful grin toying his expression. Where before, sons were tossed into Sea as sacrifice to her. What worth was a son in a woman's world? Aiolos had aged to learn differently from that way of thought. Kukutux wanted to give him sons to pass on the namesake they had made for themselves. It was a new and happy idea.
We will have to work hard at it. But I think we could make it happen.
He muses aloud playfully.
kukutux laughed long and richly at aiolos. "it is a sweet work," she purred to him, blushing despite her years and status as wife.
and she would be anaa a third time.
she plucked at aiolos' hackles and dashed off, falling into a playbow. they would keep close to the ulax, but she longed to see the controlled flex of strength in his proud blazing body.
Kukutux takes a snatch at him, to nip and dash away before he could fully register it. She is swift, that she is!
He lifts up and rounds to her, quick stomps in a pound of earth into her direction and gives a 'woof', tail high and waving. His warning, and then he is running after her though always but a hair out of reach!
she laughed and danced aside from her sun man.
he followed, proud and powerful. and he shone as the sun, his eyes, his teeth, his pelt! how handsome he was! her heart raced, as much for him as for running, and she stopped suddenly, a bark daring aiolos to at last attempt another catch of her.
She moved with the winds, like puffy flutters of snow twirling and dancing in winter sky. His flames stretched and reached out over Moonglow, grasping for her.
She barks and he barks back, coming close and lifting up on hind legs to wrap his forelimbs around her torso. He reaches to tug playfully at her scruff, to pull her down to the ground with him in tumble.
shall we fade this? <3
kukutux laughed.
she wrapped her arms around aiolos and held him to her.
they had made a strong village. she wished to give him many more years and many more children.