Ouroboros Spine ted

caribou, running through a cloud of snow. red droplets upon pristine drifts. a child's crying. the yellow eyes of her brother, stricken.

kukutux came awake with a gasp and then a moan. pain sliced through her skull; she dropped back down and raised her forepaws in agony. it throbbed into a sharp ebb, and the duck lifted her muzzle.

a bank of white, and she tucked beneath its overhang. smoke still hanging in the air. kukutux licked her dry lips and forced herself upright, stumbling out of the snow and into the frozen light of day. it hurt her head again but this time the woman did not cringe. she looked toward moonspear, and began to claw a path through the paleness, the names of her husband and her children rising unsaid to her tongue.

she must go back to find them.