Ouroboros Spine never treat yourself

Shame, licked up her insides in a smothering smoke of her burning heart.

Kivaluk was second hunter. She had meant him to be first hunter of Natigvik. She had meant so much for her family and she had burned it down for one son, no longer among them. She did not hold ill against him, but she could not help the feeling of loss.

I believe I must be.

But she listened, waiting if she would be told she should not be.