Ouroboros Spine pivalliak ⧃

for a long moment she only watched.

the boy did not eat. nuak did not eat, only sniffed over her kill searchingly. and she knew he hungered, surely. he was only a young hunter with a fathomless belly.

but he was not only. she had seen the trader in his face, clear as an early sun. maybe you only saw the thing that you wanted to see, she suggested softly to herself. the truth could not be ignored or put aside.

when you gave him the name of nuak, did you know?

kukutux returned to herself, drinking in a breath. she blinked.