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Try as she might Valmua could assert herself as someone innocent of wrong-doing, pure in her devotion to her brothers, and without any designs in place. Kigipigak knew better than to listen. He only did it because he had ears he could not turn off.

The added jab of pet made him flash his teeth and rumble at her. I am not your pet. I am Kigipigak. Use my name when you speak of me, niviaksralugruak. But she wasn't even paying attention to him now. Her head was bowed, her eyes directed scornfully towards their home.

What is it? He murmurs after a pause, glancing towards the mountainside and following her eye-line with an air of caution. Kigipigak could not see anything wrong but they were at quite a distance. The ravens did not swarm; he went quiet all the same, wondering if Valmua heard a song upon the wind he had missed.