Moonspear hush

wanted to squeak this in here before i archived it! i'll leave it open for another week or so in case anyone else wants to respond. <3

Quiet settled in, and Sialuk preened the fur of the newborn girl. Maggak, she whispered, the name chosen for the girl easily. She was silvery-white just like her mother, with the dappled features of a great-grandfather she would never know. Sialuk would not speak his name, but it had been he who had claimed this mountain many years ago. She had learned of him from some wolf or another as a child, and she revered him as an ancestor.
Even quieter now, she breathed her daughter's spirit name.

Taupek. It would be spoken only twice to her. Once today, and the second time when she was ready to hear it. Sialuk held her own spirit name close to her chest, remembering the day when she had been given purpose by her own mother.