Firefly Glen egangak ⋼

Lote did not answer. Perhaps she did not hear, or the thought made her ache in a way Kigipigak could not fathom, being a man without.

He watched her pull further away and go down one path or another, and when he turned back to Kukutux, saw her eyes upon him.

A thought came to him: a memory.

I was given such a choice, once. He thought of Rivenwood and his oath there, which lay broken, but not in any wrong way that he could see. And then he was thinking fondly of Sakhmet, and wondering to himself if they could have had that.

Not now, though. She was gone. Kigipigak had never wanted such a thing before, and found it pointless to think of what could have been. She was never coming back to him.