Moonspear takpiilaagruk ⋗

the thought had come in quiet to kukutux many times.

the pain that had lodged beneath her breastbone seemed a slipping illness. in silence she treated her malady, for it would pass.

she could not lose her strength at a time such as this. 

"when they have a good age, i have the want for all of my grandchildren to come and stay a time with me in moonglow. panuk and rolayne must know all the faces of their family. in us do we keep their mother alive."