Phantom Hollow Beams from your M2

a terrified child. kukutux dropped to rounded belly to drape her pelt as closely over his cold feet and nose and ears as she might, gathering him close; snow-duck with child beneath feathers.

"what is the name that you have?" she questioned in swift, clipped tones. the light upon his face again, and she saw that already he had been injured before sedna seized him and sent him to the river spirits.

she listened for any death-rattling of water in the back of his voice, but heard none, and smoothed his ears with her tongue once, twice.

blood on the soil where he lay;

from where did he come, grandmother?

he is more broken than the water brought to him.

who would harm so young a boy?

"i am kukutux. i will bring you to my ulaq in the moonglow village."