to be present at the second birth of sialuk was a blessing to chakliux, who though often of moontide.
yet it was here he wished to be for this time, for it detracted nothing from his equal desire to be home among his wives and new children.
when sialuk briefly emerged, he greeted her warmly and with words of encouragement, but then he sank back where he had been sitting. restlessness at last was given voice; he moved off noiselessly and returned in time to see elentari enter the ulaq.
he set down a pair of doves and listened.
and when he knew a third child had come, the seal hunter smiled. he heard sialuk's silvered song raise and twined with it a blessing from the cold northern peninsula. it was not quite a father's words, in acceptance of how these children too would be sunshine people; it carried instead the hope of the spirit world and evoked the snow falling over wild places.
and because he did not know if he should enter the ulaq, and because he needed to go back to the seaside, he turned. if paused, he would gladly go and witness these babes, but either way, be it in this moment or later, chakliux would invite @Maggak and @Acrux or both of them to hunt with him before he departed the mountain for the ocean once more.