Duskfire Glacier itkaktuk ⨢

The Moonwoman spoke, but Issorartuyok could not have predicted her words. She stated that if the boys were to carry anger in their heart, there would not be a place for them in the glacier. She said they would need to leave their home. The way she spoke of another, being filled with a terrible spirit and lashing out against his own people, rattled the northerner. The earthy brown of his eyes drifted away from the pale woman and out across the stretch of land that was Duskfire.

I would rather seek claim elsewhere, I think, the man admitted to her.

What good would it do? If the boys had lost their mother and father, they were entitled to their rage and their hurt. Issorartuyok only did not want that to last within them. So, he could not see how banishing them from their home would settle the violent needs of the spirits inside them. It bothered him to think that this had been spoken as a reasonable solution.

Issorartuyok was grateful when the conversation shifted to Meerkat. She offered warning, that children could not be born with anger close to them. The man nodded his head in understanding.

She has admitted feelings, but I am afraid that she is young… and that she will want things that I cannot give her. I am an honest man who will share my plans, my spirit’s path, without shyness. I believe she does not know what she wants, that if she were to be a wife to me…

Issorartuyok trailed his words and frowned.

Perhaps we are too unalike.