Ouroboros Spine aatigaa ⋹

kukutux nodded. "in the place where i was born, women were forbidden to hunt. small things, yes. my mother gave me the teaching of how to fish in the long salt and collect abalone. but the great animals, they belonged only to the teeth of the hunters."

"but in this place we all hunt."

she smiled. "what is this word, mercenary?" the duck swept her ears forward, attention trained on qadira.