Moonsong Glacier mere man ki ganga

Will you show me to your home? he asked, and Sialuk paused a moment, thinking of the dark wolf who had once sought something of anaa and even herself that neither of them had wished to give. But this was not that wolf, Sialuk reminded herself, and she would have something to give in the coming months, should nature allow.

Moonspear pulled her, but that was not her home. The spine was, and she beckoned him to follow her. I am called Sialuk Ostrega, and our village, Moonglow, she said. The raindrop was aware that her mother had shed the Ostrega name, but Sialuk had kept it. She respected Aiolos, but it was her taataa she wished to honor by keeping his name alive. Not only him, but the other family she had lost that day. She could not speak their names, but she could speak her own, and Ostrega was part of her.