Ouroboros Spine blood of Akhlut

my son has returned a man! 

her song was proud and full-throated. she watched arrluk approach, her eyes noting the blood upon him.

he had killed. he had prayed. he had dreamed.

and now he stood before her with a new light in his eyes, a new knowing.

my son has returned a hunter!

her gaze was proud upon him. kukutux offered him a woman's reference, the old way of bowed head and averted eye.

birdsong in ajei's voice.

moonwoman heard this — and wondered, even as her grin was for arrluk entire.