Ouroboros Spine Nix

Just because your kid does not respond the same way to conventional expressions of affection, does not mean that they have no connection to you whatsoever. If Walrus Hunters had provided her with an environment that she found easy to fit and live in, then Moonglow gave her sense of belonging and safety that she had not had there. This terrain felt uncomfortable to her as dress that looks good on you, but still does not feel right. But people made her stay. Equal parts of calculated pragmatism and need to have at least some sort of connection.

Kausiut valued this in her own particular way without showing this to others. "Blackwater..." she repeated slowly the unknown combination of two words. Black and water. "Village?" she asked, wondering, if that was another name for a village like theirs here.