Ouroboros Spine ii. and leave them

The girl spoke of Kukutux. That was enough to alleviate the tension in Raimo's shoulders. He remained bullish and scowling but no longer directed the glare of his two-toned gaze her way. Good. He remarks.

I have not ventured from the mountain in some time. My patrols of the game trails once brought me many things, but now I find it harder and harder to find prey. He told her this for two purposes: to share that he had been here with Kukutux longer and to explain why he had climbed down the mountain after her. It was good that someone should be sent after the herds, he thought.

Find me when you return. He suggests next — although the tone of Raimo's voice implies more than that, like a command. An assumption to be included. Then we may go and hunt together. Perhaps by then the mourning songs will be over and Sialuk can join us too. They would need more bodies to bring down a deer, at any rate.