Ouroboros Spine weep for me, for I have no tears left

Skipping ahead a bit from this thread. Hoping for @Shikoba to join! @Kukutux is also welcome! :3

He rested now, tucked tightly within an ulaq he had been given. But he could not sleep. Slumber refused to accept him. So, instead, he would lie in silent agony. Though Moonwoman had tended him well, the pain would not yet entirely leave him. It clung on closely. Inutsuk was tired of it, but there was little else he could do.

In each waking moment, he stared at the wall. He thought of Shikoba often, a slight hope hanging over him that she would come to visit him. But he knew she was busy as sivullik and she was surely still angry with him for leaving. 

As for Kukutux, he often wondered what her thoughts were. Did she loathe the man for abandoning the village many times over? Inutsuk would have liked to ask; but again, she too was busy tending to her people — the people he once called his, but is now unsure if he will ever have the right to do so again.