Ouroboros Spine ajukittuk ⪻

There were men.

There were women.

Then there were...easier things.

He was familiar with a separation of the genders, but he was not aware of discussion being part of that. Perhaps it was the same way that his mother had always told him to have manners in front of the women, to not speak of the crude things the warriors back home could. Yet Kukutux and her people (not that he had met many...) did not seem the kind to utter the crude words of mindless men.

It felt far too loaded to ask questions of what the men spoke about. Especially if they did not speak of them in front of even Kukutux. He supposed he would tuck that question away for this...sivullik. Adrastus.

How is one a — ah, His tongue felt thick in his mouth when he tried her words. Not yet used to the one they were supposed to be said. How do you become firsthunter? What does that...mean?