Ouroboros Spine taggak

You are alone. For a moment he thinks he is speaking to himself, somehow, in his mind. Or that it might be the wind; but it is only Kigipigak's preoccupation with Sakhmet that has him missing Kukutux' arrival.

She draws closer. Her belly has grown, the rest of her looks hungry. Her face is embellished with worry.

I lost her. He admits, huffing the words with a sad tone that does not suit him. Gone is the overtly boisterous boy. I woke one day to find Sakhmet gone. We had some trouble on the plateau - ah, she hoped to help her parents. I think maybe that is why she is gone.

He had to hope it was so simple.

We hunted the plateau for her missing family, a little girl. I think she went further - but I do not know where. Has she been here? Have you seen her? To learn that Sakhmet was merely visiting the moon village would ease his mind, equally so if she was being cared for by Kukutux, but even as Kigipigak asked these things he knew that she was not among the ulax.

Kukutux only carried the scent of her people, and the heavy scent of a man he did not know.