Duskfire Glacier cleaning off her fingers as she wept

Yes, other wolves. Bad wolves with bad spirits, the northerner answered in a graveled voice. Issorartuyok could not understand the desire to cause harm to a family group. The man had never experienced any problems with Heda’s home. They had even allowed her to leave and seek a future for herself. There were things about the young woman’s journey that reminded him of his own.

I am worried for her. It is a difficult choice to leave one’s home. To find that her village was attacked after she had left…

Issorartuyok was not certain what he would have done if Tuuluuwaq had arrived bearing similar news. The man did not want for Heda to suffer a weight of guilt upon her chest. The journey back to her home and the glacier was not an easy one to make.