Ouroboros Spine Alas I cannot Swim

Is the mountain claimed? That was a harder question to answer. All her life, her blood kin had protected the spear. To say it was not claimed was to say that her father and uncle no longer lived. Their fate was not yet known, so she could not say. If they survived, it would be they who took aunt Hydra's place. It was they who would make the decision whether or not to permanently relocate. She could not know.

If any survive, my blood kin claim it. My mother says dear aunt met her death there, and she was our leader. But my father, Jarilo, and my uncle, Dirge, may yet still be there, not sure where to find us even though we have called for them endlessly.

It was still five days until they would stop calling and change to singing the songs of death. Those were songs Sialuk did not wish to learn so soon.