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Tulimaq chuffed a small laugh. I have been a leader for years. He answered.

He watched the boy, studying him. Sizing him up yet again as if the conversation had changed something; but Tulimaq only noticed how certain the boy sounded now, versus the shaking of his voice before. Had the collection of souls here strengthened him, as the Rise came to be whole? Maybe. It was the case for some.

My people, the Tartok, are everywhere. We roam and we hunt. I have a band of my own where I am their leader — their sivullik. Which would probably lead to an obvious question that Tulimaq hoped to answer before the boy could think of it: My hunt led me here, and when Avicus made her first call for reinforcements, I was nearby.