Moonstone Quarry quqsuqtaq ⋞

Yes, you are right! Kigipigak had not thought of it that way; so fixated on how different Mahler was from Stjornuati, or the people of the wood from his ravenhome. It still hurt to think of the opportunity he had at the Watch, and the abandonment he felt. With time that would heal.

Perhaps in the spring.

My new issumatar is an older man. He says he is done with children, and has given me permission to start a family if I choose. He told Kukutux of this to gauge her reaction. He wondered if she would find it as strange as himself. Doing so would displace him. That is the way of things. Yet he says he does not mind, and I find that... different. He huffs, then shrugs.

If I were home in my village I would have found a woman by now, I think. He muses, laughing lightly at the change in his circumstances.