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"it is hard to keep a heart in two places," kukutux commented knowingly. she was interested, however, as to why keyni had chosen a way of life different from their way. perhaps the northerner had been led by spirits another way, but it sounded as if the cloud-woman had divested herself of kinship ties. she wondered who this man was, for he did not sound like kigipigak.

the idea forced ice upon the surface of the duck's soul. she had been forcibly cut off from her own people; she could not conceive of having shut herself away from them purposefully. and yet keyni continued to compel her. "do you know the tongue of the place where the sun does not set?"