Moonspear where'd you go

Warmth spread across her cheeks when her uncle complimented her intelligence. Sialuk was very much a "monkey see, monkey do" type, and she had spent plenty of time watching her mother work. She just happened to be very lucky that her mother was smart, too. Her uncle humored her question, explaining the different thinks that wolves thought about ancestral spirits. It was strange that there were so many different ways that others thought about the dead.

Anaa does not speak of the dead, Sialuk admitted matter-of-factly. Her mother's ancestors, perhaps her whole family, was gone. While Sialuk did not know the whole story, she did know that her mother was born and raised on an island, and something terrible had happened there. Kukutux had survived, and now she was here, wife to taataa.

Do you think there are ancestor spirits here, living on the slopes and in the forests? Sialuk asked. She was vaguely aware that her father and his siblings had been born here, but it wasn't until now that she realized they had once had parents, too. Where were their parents now? Were they dead, like anaa's family? She peered around, as if she might be able to catch a glimpse of one of these dead relatives.