Blacktail Deer Plateau sikinaagiksuk

Her admission was concerning. The woman laughed it off, and Kigipigak did not see the humor in it; however, she went on to prove her happiness to him.

Whent he topic shifted to Sakhmet the young man was stunned, as he had not imagined the girl's parents and certainly had not thought of the club-footed woman since their initial meeting, let alone to compare them.

How did you and Sakhmet find each other? What a question! Kigipigak was still reeling. He gathered himself enough to answer.

I was exploring the foothills to the west. After camping in a place filled with little dancing lights, which itself was ruined by some kind of rock-fall or disaster.

Kigipigak looked a bit grim as he recalled the scene. The crushed body rotting beneath the stone, the feel of it as he'd tripped upon the skull. She found me, more appropriately. But the place where we met was not safe. I found... old death. I did not want her to see it and so I tried to shelter her, and we... got to talking.

And to walking, and to hunting; now here he was, ready to continue protecting her.

I regret being lost afterward. I was foolish; there were deer and I had hoped to bring home something delicious to make her happy! And instead there was a cat, thus.. All of this. A shrug of his broad shoulders, to show off the network of scars.