Ouroboros Spine Who are you when you stand alone?

There was a coldness in Kukutux now that Kilgitsuk had not expected.

She said of Kivaluk that he was sivullik and at once the father was proud, however, he was also covetous, for she had said our son as if — no, he thought. He knew his wife had remarried; he had not considered to whom.

His mind spun.

He took a breath, and found himself frowning around his thoughts.

I know my wife is gone. That she isn't even my wife, now, he wanted to make jokes! He wanted to laugh at how all of this had played out, yet he found no mirth within himself. There was only ice around that heart which once burned for Sakhmet.

—is that what is broken?