Ouroboros Spine BWP: TSS Bones

they were very old ivories, and kukutux regarded them with a reverence she meant to extend to the young ones of moonglow.

"they are the bones of an ancestor," she decided at last after some moments had passed. "perhaps it is ancestor to wolf, perhaps to another. but we must give them a burial," she said, nuzzling ajei and brushing massaraq with her muzzle. 

"we will put them back down there," moonwoman went on. "go and bring good things here, pretty things here. we will send them to sedna together, so their spirits will not be alone."

here she rose, intending to return the skulls, glancing down into the darkness once with a solemn wonder.