Felltree Marsh pamiuktuuk

This is what he missed about his home, right here. The bantering of warriors. Brothers holding secret counsel and filling the air with jokes. Things kept from the ear of their mother.

Kigipigak did not see a difference between the obnoxious masculinity of those warriors and the irritation of this man; it was all a part of the behaviors he had learned growing up and erroneously interpreted in the present.

Yes, I was with them until the winterstorm ended. Spring came, and I was offered the chance to become a father - but I am young, it would not have satisfied me to settle this early in life. It was half a boast, but fully true. Kigipigak laughed as he followed the other man.

I am happier out here, where I can do as I please!