Qeya River sparrow's sorrow

at her go-ahead, he continues on his patrol, appreciative that she is encouraging it. while the constant motion does not necessarily offer him a solution to how to process and categorize the big emotions brewing within him like warring stormfronts ...it acts as a temporary balm.

as does her presence.

kivaluk is quiet, though attentive as she tells him was sivullik is. a lead hunter, only bestowed to those who prove themselves. it is enticing — though part of him thinks with a pang of sadness in his heart as the thought festers at the still open wound ( despite the talk of his father returning ) that the title should belong to his father.

but that is not possible now, and sakhmet's words leave kivaluk to draw his own assumptions on how long his father is going to be gone. will it be long enough for him to be a lead hunter?

is sivullik what natigvik needs? because i can be a guardian too. kivaluk offers: not because he isn't interested ( because he is ), but in a twist of surprising ( if not sudden ) maturity he is willing to set aside trades he desires for ones that the pack needed first and foremost.

he was the oldest son. it was his duty to be what the pack needed most...wasn't it? if natigvik needs a sivullik the most, then that is what i will work to become. either way, he was resolved to do exactly as he'd said in the meeting: whatever it took to help out.