Moonspear girl

"always," the seal hunter man said solemnly, and looked toward the sky as if he might see the reflection of the ocean there. "i wish my son had been born on the ice, that his first breaths had been the cold snow winds, that he learned to walk on the stones and the lichen where i did."
his chest swelled with a breath.
"but we cannot live with so much regret. this is a good place. sialuk is a good woman. this is the home of my son. i will wet his feet in the sea when he is older."
raiyuk would know it, for that salt sang in the blood of all seal hunters. "you call her a woman. so do we. the sea gives life. how could she not be?"