Firefly Glen homecoming

She laughed with her lungs, the sound soft and sweet like a trickle of a stream. Annak is wife, and ugi is husband, she said. But bird and death is good guess. Together, the wife and husband go to the dancing lights—this is where the voices of our kin take us when we leave this world.

This word you speak—inikuk—what does it mean? Like tappituk, she found that their words were similar, but not quite the same. It reminded her of the language Kigipigak used. She wondered now where he was. Perhaps anaa would know. Had he fought for Lane, like he'd said he would? Ah, but those thoughts clouded her vision for the wolf who stood right in front of her, and she set them aside.

I have forgotten to say! I am called Sialuk Ostrega.