Felltree Marsh pamiuktuuk

Kigipigak crossed westward while the sun shone. He glimpsed some shapes moving on the horizon which looked like a fox and a bear roaming together, from a distance, and chose to split away from their trajectory rather than investigate.

As the ground became sodden and recessed he realized his blunder; spring was a wet season in this part of the world and as such, the marsh was ripe with standing water. He was mud-slicked and green stained by the time he found solid earth again.

Kigipigak hoisted himself from the mire and hastily shook the dampness from his shoulders, which did not work as efficiently as he would have liked, and then stopped when something moved among the reeds. It sounded like large fish or something slippery, moving across the mud in haste.