Ouroboros Spine we would skate when the ice would freeze

prepare? prepare for his return? "he would not want you to have worry." others upon this plateau, a strange word she felt she must have heard before. it felt like clear water upon her tongue.

sakhmet promised to return to kigipigak.

a friend, he had told her. aya! men do not know how to say the things in their heart. but women know these words.

"return to your village. tell them their hawk-in-the-snow is healing. that he walks to learn more of himself."

a velvet look.

"eat meat. rest in your sleeping place. he has food and medicine in this place."

sympathy welling in her jadestone stare as if river-water returning.

"but i will not turn away meat from a hunter." giving this for sakhmet to decide what she might do.