Ouroboros Spine salliak ⤐

Having already spoken to Kukutux about this endeavor, Kigipigak is not at all surprised when moon-woman brings it up before the others.

He is appropriately silent while she explains and while he appears attentive, Kigipigak is mentally miles away. He is thinking of the sea, of ravens flying overhead, of boar hunts with strangers and the distant memory of giving chase to elk in snow, as a boy.

Kigipigak draws a breath and tries to push the nostalgia away, if that is truly all he is feeling. As he returns to himself he hears, —wish to stay in this village, speak these words now.

Turning an ear and then shifting his glassy eyes about the gathering, he wonders if anyone will elect to remain within the village. The people of Moonglow will need somewhere to return to after, he thinks, but he cannot think of a more lonely way to spend the winter than alone like that.