Ouroboros Spine Who are you when you stand alone?

he had helped ariadne. he had hunted between the villages. he had visited moontide. 

kukutux knew that kigipigak had come back.

but he had not come to her. and sakhmet had too, gone away.

now their son had become a man and had chosen a woman.

now firsthunter faced a journey not of walking, but his mind. aiolos was father to all of moonglow. but kivaluk remembered the man at his first hearth, and kukutux felt that his nature had come from these things.

when the grey sky was stained with shadow, she put on her fine white foxfur wrap and came to find the tall snowhawk. jadestone eyes found his face in silence, and no warm greeting came. she was not angry, and she was ready to welcome him. but not until the things unsaid had been remedied.