Firefly Glen reptile boy

For @Fennec!

When she had returned to Moonspear with anaa, the crow had greeted her. She could not be certain that it was the same crow that had said farewell to her when they had left, but why would any other crow continue to talk to her? Sialuk had all but forgotten about the bird until, after her morning howl, it called to her yet again, this time coming closer to her and carrying something in its small, pointy black beak. The girl's yellow eyes peered at it as it perched on a branch not far away from where she had given her morning song.

When the qanglaagix saw that she paid him (her?) attention, it dropped the thing from its mouth, which fell until it landed at Sialuk's feet. It was a small, delicate bone, likely from a rodent of some sort. What a curious thing for a bird to do, and it looked expectantly at her with its black beady eyes. The raindrop's eyes looked from bird to bone several times over before she gently picked up the bone and began to walk it to the ulaq. The bird hopped and flew along, cawing incessantly, but it did not try and take back its treasure when Sialuk offered.

Then, it clicked.

The bone was given, but it was a debt to be repaid.

Once Sialuk stashed the bone safely in her own little corner of the ulaq, she sprung for one of the nearby caches, where she'd recently deposited her first kill: a young muskrat. She ripped flesh from bone, noticing the crow that had now grown silent, but still waited nearby. For you, qanglaagix, she said, dropping the chunk of meat and stepping back from it.

Now satisfied, the crow swept in quickly, carrying off a piece of her first kill. A fair trade, she thought, and it dawned on her that this must have been what the witch meant. She simply must go tell her of this. Excitement thrumming in her chest, Sialuk set off for the border between her home and the witch's, having learned that the cloudy-eyed wolf that was her mother's apprentice now lived there. When she arrived, Sialuk's voice hung in the air, calling for The Witch of the Glen.