Ouroboros Spine Keep your head up, don't let it fall

"you will always be these things, inutsuk. but you are also a man of moonglow. the children of this year and the next ones will look to you for teaching. what will you tell them?" 

every wolf in moonglow had a role. she was wife to sunman but she was also moonwoman, keeper of women's secrets and the sacred rituals that had guided her people through the long dark. 

"it is like having two names. there is the name you give to those around you. and there is the name only you know in your heart."