Great Bear Wilderness Sea Born

mauruk.

firstborn son.

spirit traveller.

cleansed man.

but still her sea-girl had died, and the man returned from sedna lived.

kukutux came to him, clad in the fur-wrap of a stoat. so much like the blackfox he looked! and yet when she reached for the love she had borne the moon-hunter, it was trapped behind the name she could not speak.

mauruk was not him. her eyes filled with the tears it felt would never stop their flowing.