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The stories she could help with, but the hot meal she could not. The otter was for anaa, and Sialuk would have to find more for herself when she returned to the snow ulaq. Perhaps tomorrow, depending on how long it took to return there. She watched as Raimo departed, and Sialuk did not make an effort to stop him. She was in no position to barter with him, so she let him go.

Removing her foot from the otter, she picked it up and turned back toward the ring of mountains, urgency in her step as she returned to her mother.