Ocean's Breath Plateau aliuktuq

“I think so!” Seal agreed with a positive smile.

Change. Transformation. Boy to man. Girl to woman. The theme of the season was on everybody’s mind. The heart-to-heart with her mom. The talk with Kukutux… Raiyuk, Kassuq, Massaraq, Arrluk… when they returned nothing would be as it had been, and this filled Seal with bittersweetness.

And yet she was curious. What would be different? What changes would she see in her friends? In herself?

“How long will you hunt?” she asked as the wind picked up and blew her fur this way and that.