May 31, 2023, 11:35 AM
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Sialuk scarcely slept. She did not eat. The hunger grew and grew, threatening to drive her to madness if she did not obey nature's wish. The sun had barely crept over the horizon when she could no longer settle on the deerskin. Alert and upright, she made her way once again to the entrance. The call came again. Urgency. Wanting. Needing.
She had felt this the year before, but in her second year, along with her status, the ancestors appeared to amplify everything she had felt in her first year. No longer was she a stranger drifting from one village to the next—she was head of her own village, and instinct drove her to fill this village with children of her own.