Moonspear prophecy girl

"ajaukuluk chose for me because i had no one to speak in my name. the way it should happen is that i will choose your ugi. i will tell your father. if he approves, the boy must come here and stay with us for a time." in the days that had long passed, to be united beneath one roof might eventually inspire children. that was many moons away for sialuk; in the spring months, an ugi was to acclimate a girl to the one she would one day take as husband, if they got along with one another and he provided a dowry.

she found herself pleased with sialuk's remark upon jarilo; it was a wise choice she herself had made.

"and when you are older, and have twenty-four moons, sialuk, he will become your husband. you will move to his ulaq then, either here, if he becomes a man of moonspear, or to the place he chooses." and to the last, "napaaktum akargik," syllables that bound the fat feathered bird to the smell of the pines hanging here.