Ouroboros Spine ted

it hurt to be thought of as weak. it frustrated kukutux to suddenly be trapped within a body hardly strong enough to move, a body that had up until these last days done its share of the work. sialuk did not truly believe her weak, no, but the duck felt its truth settle heavily upon her.

she wanted to tell sialuk of how she had lived alone and communed with the spirit-man, but it did not matter. then she had not been so injured. now she could barely walk.

"we will not go until i am able to travel," the moondrop agreed. "i hope that others join us here."