Qeya River KIVGURUK

once more, kivaluk finds the world beneath his paws shaky and unsettled: though it was with the departure of akkuma and sahkmet that cause the tremors this time. and... though he had missed kigipigak it was the absence of his mother and brother that cut him the very deepest.

perhaps he should've seen the foreshadowing. his brother had been isolated and withdrawn for many months now and though he understands their mother's desire to go with him, to help him heal whatever invisible demons he was battling ...it does not mean that it doesn't feel like knives to his heart.

still, he does not wish to be selfish; which he knew childishly begging her to stay would've been.

with eyes heavy with sorrow he was trying to hide and heart wounded he looks to his father for a long moment before kivaluk's gaze cuts to kukutux — and then to amalia very briefly but does not linger. though he desires to scowl at the ground and bury himself in patrols and hunts and sparring he remains by his father's side; dutifully.