Ouroboros Spine nuvakliak

The spirits could have led him from Moonglow and back again. Perhaps they served the god of the island, Bartholomew's god, and wanted to take Mojag and expose him to that? But that also felt so silly, and childish, to think of these forces wanting playmates and being even close to sentient; Mojag did not know what to think, but he liked to hear his mother speak of spirits, and listened to her questions.

I felt... something. He didn't know what it had been that kept him rooted there. He had been very sad, and sometimes very happy, thinking that his life had ended and that his hunt for his father was over - a failure, but over, so he could focus on other things. I hunted there and helped the people of the island. We chased deer together, and they taught me to fish in the sea, and... he wanted to talk about the turtle he had found and named, and the place that was then named for it, but then he'd have to explain what a turtle was to his mother and Mojag didn't know how.

Is it wrong that I miss them? He blurts next, bashfully.