Silverlight Terrace Arnaraq

"a wolf must eat meat to live. we kill them. we offer thanks to their spirit. sedna takes them to her home beyond the dancing lights, until the spirit is ready to be born as a fawn again. it is a great circle. like the inside of your eye, or the mountains around our village."

death was only part of a circular pattern that had lived long before the wolf and would live long after.

kukutux looked softly at her sea wandering child.