Ouroboros Spine You won't know your worth now, son, until you take a hit

Slowly he came to follow the witch. He did not notice if she slipped behind him or kept in the lead, only that the air was heavy until they began to scale the cliff edge, then how lightheaded he felt after.

When the rookery came in to view Kiliutak hesitated. He did not like the sight of the sun-baked rock or how sharp the shadows cut across the corner of it; but the sun was no longer directly angled overhead. The time he had spent in the water had been long enough to save Kiliutak from the worst of it.

He moved to the chasm and pressed himself inside of it, so that only his tail's grizzled end hung limply at the door.