Ouroboros Spine surprise

Focused on nourishing herself, she had not noticed him approach. She chided herself for not keeping herself more alert, and her skin prickled at the sound of his voice. Sixsix remained where he was for a moment, but as the black wolf drew near, he flew to the safe haven of a pine branch above. He had not survived this long around predators because he lacked intelligence.

She kept herself calm, cool, collected. Anaa had said they were indebted to him for the food he had given, and Sialuk knew she could not eat this whole elk, even if she intended to bring a leg of it back to her mother. The spirits chose for this one to die so that we may live. I will take one leg for anaa, and you may have the rest. Sialuk was glad she had managed to take a majority of the richest meat for herself. She purposefully used her native tongue to refer to her mother, not wishing him to know their relation. The less he knew, the better.

This settles our debt. There was an air of finality in her statement.