Moonspear akunika ⛰

kukutux listened, raising a counter to each of the points that desdemona had made. yet she did not seek them; she thought carefully about the nuance of what had been uttered. there was no worth to angering the huntress; the gamma kept herself folded and still, deferent to the tone set by the other moonspear wolf.

"i was brought to this mountain as payment for a debt," the duck said softly. "now i am wife to a chieftain and mother to children who bear the name ostrega." silent a moment, thinking. "every day i am in moonspear i honor hydra." she blinked toward the snowy earth. "loyalty binds us both."

"make a kinship tie with aiolos. bind yuelong forever to moonspear. she is storm upon open water. go to the island not only as wife, but as a war-dancer who will create a path to the sea along which any ostrega might walk." breathless, holding it to herself, falling silent.