Ouroboros Spine aftaim

He spoke his name, and a word that brought grief to the surface. She breathed in, not knowing if he knew what had befallen the mountain. He asked of the word "village," and Sialuk silently thanked him for the distraction away from what had been taken from her.

It is a gathering of wolves who work together. Some may call it 'pack,' she explained. These are my mother's customs, which she brought to Moonspear from an island far away. If he had lived in Moonspear, some time before she was born, surely he had made words with her aunts and uncles. She did not speak their names, fearing what would come if she did. My aunt ruled Moonspear for some time. My father, her second. They did not survive the strange storm, she informed him, her eyes downcast.

Antares lives, she said, wondering if perhaps his name would bring light to the stranger's face. Her cousin had but a year of life before the raindrop, but perhaps they knew one another.