Barrow Fields pavva mauragak

she did not understand.

kigipigak spoke of betrayal. 

moonglow had been his family. she was his kin. he had eaten meat at her hearth many times. he knew her daughters. she had saved him from the blood-fever brought by the cat's claws.

the duck was stricken. she put some space between herself and the tartok-man, her greenstone eyes wishing to be hard but only fractured with hurt. "if this man comes to take moonglow, if he says 'come with me' to you, then you will help him?"

it hurt kukutux to hear kigipigak describe himself as tartok, after all these moons.

"you must choose. now." kukutux pressed down the tears of anger threatening to fall.