Ouroboros Spine tulukkam ittuk

The checker is gonna get him so here is a vague post to prevent that...

It was different being here while healthy, knowing also that he could not return to the plateau. Expecting to turn a corner and see Sakhmet; or to visit one place or another, expecting her to be there for a meeting, only to find her gone.

Kigipigak knew it was foolish of him to think these things. She would not know that he had given up on the plateau - nor would her parents, who had vanished around the same time. All that Kigipigak could do now was move on.

He felt a deep sadness the likes of which had never affected him before, pining for something he could not have, and spent the hours post-inception to the village making a mental map of the communal places. Finding the quickest route between these areas. Discerning which scents belonged to which people, and especially, which areas to avoid.

Kukutux was nowhere to be found and Kigipigak knew it was because of her state as a mother, caring for her new daughters. That at least brought some good feeling back to him. Kigipigak was glad for her good fortune, and only wished in a covetous sense, that he could share in it somehow.

One day maybe, if somehow Sakhmet returned.