Ouroboros Spine we would skate when the ice would freeze

"i wish to let him go, sakhmet. but he slept long hours as the evil spirits burned under his parka." 

"he is restless. his body grows strong. but he must not leave this village until the hotness cannot reach him again. if i bring him here before this time, if you are before his eyes, he will leave. and i will not hold him here."

kukutux did not know how long they had known one another.

kigipigak churned within the ulaq and sakhmet mourned upon the side of moonglow.

was it right that she say these things?

daughter.

you are moonwoman of one village.

"but it is not yet time."

she had sung her husband's spirit through the throat of sedna for nine days.

sakhmet had strength to sing for six.

"i will tell this to his ears."

it was their way, to wait. and to lament, for the hunters that they loved.

and it must be so. why else did the woman cry so? plead so?

"i see that your binding has no weakness. he will come back to you."