Ouroboros Spine we can stay in tonight

the news of tulukiri weighed heavily upon kukutux.

but the mountain overlooking the village held sialuk. 

and her own body held the stirrings of new starlight.

the duck was somber when she came to attend the salt-man's call, but her face smoothed into warmth and interest to see him stained with blood.

he had brought a doe in wholeness to the village.

moonwoman regarded rhaegal knowingly. she was aware he had visited before and that her deer-daughter had met him. more than that, the details were not her own to know. 

but kukutux knew that he would marry vairë. her jadestone eyes were warm, favoring him as the son he had almost become.

"sedna has blessed you, man of the long salt."