Big Salmon Lake uujaujaq ≄

As pale and lightly colored fur mingled, the scents of two packs but one family mingled. Her spine shivered pleasantly as if she were being marked, officially welcomed into the fold. She hummed in interest, ears lifting to catch the name she offered of a man she knew. "I once shared a hunt of a man of northern descent. He was of few words, of a pale blonde." Had Kukutux met Stjornuati? Her memory of their one time encounter was a good one. "I never did learn his name though."

"Thank you." She replied to the duck's compliment of her name's meaning. "I do love my birthplace, but not enough to have stayed. The...customs of my clan there didn't fit with my way of life. This is not my first time in the Teekon. After a few months here, I made the trip back north, to try and regain their acceptance." Jade eyes slid shut softly with a gentle shake of her head. "I was foolish to think such." Hardly seeming weighed down by the subject, Keyni was more reflective than anything else. By the side of this stranger, so docile in her ways it seemed, she found it almost natural in opening up like this.