Ouroboros Spine ted

She wished to shoo anaa away from helping, but it would help her spirit if she was useful, so Sialuk did not intervene. She thought of their conversations past, of grandfather bear, and of the offering they had made to him. It was not he who had come down upon them, though. It was strange thunder that had done this, and Sialuk turned the events over in her mind again.

It wasn’t until anaa spoke that she halted her work. I will not leave you alone to find him, she assured her. I will go only if somebody is with you. She did remember him, and the boy Huojin who had been presented as a possible ugi. But she could not think of anything so joyous right now. There was too much pain, uncertainty, sadness.