Duskfire Glacier violin

Kigipigak was caught by surprise as Lane appeared, heeding not the call by Sakhmet, but the sight of himself. She lauded him a hero of some kind for doing what was right; earlier in his life he might have grown pompous from the pride this flared to life within his heart. Now, he merely smiled.

I am a friend to both villages. It was the right thing to do. That was all he would say on the subject, nodding appreciatively, and then looking to Sakhmet; this was her meeting with the issumatar -- she had been the one to call.