Moonspear ignivik ¦

couldn't resist posting again <3

her tired gaze closed, but there was still work to be done. kukutux recalled how the sisters had gathered around their birthing counterpart — in that moment every young woman was the sister of the new mother — and how the old midwife had compelled the woman to cough.

a deep, forced rattle, one that clenched the sore muscles of her belly and separated from her body the crimson tree that had nourished her children. algaak, the birthprice for tooteega's attendance.

she trembled still from moment to moment, but at length her soft green gaze lifted to the rain-dripping entrance of the ulaq. her voice was hoarse, throat scoured by the force of her earlier wails; kuktutux pitched it now into a low croon that bid her husband closer. she was not wrong to wish him now; he had heeded her command, and now she longed for the silent guardianship of his bearing.

no harm would come to her or the little ones while jarilo was near at hand.exhausted, kuktutux lay down her slim muzzle to await his arrival, brushing both sialuk and saviguk with a warm sigh.