Ocean's Breath Plateau aliuktuq

remembering the mountain which once he loved, where he had been born, became harder for him each passing moon. raiyuk now thought of the sea as his home, and was glad to see the love of it upon the girl's face.
she spoke of a story! a creature that could hide as a wolf, hunt and run upon the land, and then return to the sea with a seal skin. it painted for raiyuk a wonderful picture; he wondered if he would become such a creature! no doubt, wearing a seal skin disguise would make him a wonderful hunter.
I like that story. he said with a smile and a wave of his tail. then, more boastful he added: soon I am to go to the ice with my father. we will hunt the seals, and I will come back changed - ah, a man. maybe I am like your story?
was there a word for selkie in his father's tongue? his step-mothers? he would ask when next he saw them.