Ouroboros Spine puyuk

kukutux smiled brightly. a son of her northern places then, a wolf of the long dark and the sea ice.

"you are kin to the siqiniq people?" she asked, a shine to her emerald gaze. "what is your lineage?" she asked, guessing at his village. 

hunters of seals.

and for a moment she was a girl again, not yet a year, meeting the seal hunter boy that she would later marry.

he had not received his scars. and they had not been completed before the time of falling rocks.

the memory soured and she returned to the more pleasant place of her current time. "i think yes, that this hunter will stay with us," kukutux said to mojag. "it is wise of you to bring him here."