Ouroboros Spine He's heading out the door

The fact that she could not answer him with a name was indication enough that in the very least, she was conflicted about the sivullik that had wandered across her path and claimed his place due to timing. He did not like seeing Kukutux so frustrated, and knew that a part of it came from the fact that he did not completely understand how exactly a sivullik was to be chosen, if not amongst the hunters themselves. He had been led to believe that if he refused to follow Raimo, then he could contest the male's right, and potentially take his place. But what he did not know was how to follow through with doing so. He had done everything he knew to do. He had stated his desires to both the dark hunter and the pale leader- but nothing had become of it. It seemed, then, that there was another course of action which needed to take place. 

He wondered if that meant a direct challenge for power, based on physical strength- or if it would require for him to summon the others who had hunted with him, and seek out their willingness to follow one of the two who now vied for the position. Perhaps one of the wolves who had come from the Glen would put in their bid- which would be a surprise, but a welcome one, he thought. Adrastus wished to be sivullik, but the desire that burned in his chest even more was for Raimo to be displaced...And kept far away from both Sialuk and Kukutux. 

He was not pleased with the answer that the land had chosen Raimo. He was not an exceptionally spiritual wolf, though when she asked him to go to the mountains he reflected on the star which had fallen. It was what had drawn him to this place, and he did believe that there was something about it which called to him. He did not understand exactly what it was that she wished for him to discover in that place, unless this was her way of asking him to go searching for the star...He suspected, though, that that wasn't the case. She seemed to want him to go search for wisdom, rather than an object. Needless to say, it was a thorn in his side to be told to leave her now- when he knew that Raimo had been chosen to warm her in her ulaq.

When she mentioned the role of firsthunter again, it stirred something within him. He did not wish to be turned away, and he had been respectful of her space- but he had determined within his mind already that having not been chosen by the hunters, that Raimo was no longer suitable for that role. Kukutux herself confessed that the land had chosen him- and that she had not. "If the land chose him, then the star that fell chose me." He said. "And when it fell, it moved the land." He said. "You are speaking to the one who will be firsthunter. I will do what you ask-" He said, "But I will return."