Moonsong Glacier aullasik (⦦

she could see that ariadne did not know, and took no pleasure in what would come.

first, she told the story of sakhmet, kivaluk, and kigipigak, whom her daughter knew as kilgitsuk; that he had not come back for his son, that aiolos and kukutux had married her and given the status of moonglow to kivaluk as if had been born to their hearth.

and secondly, the story of chakliux; how he eyed all the moon sisters and lay recklessly with nasamik before they were married, resulting in children. how aiolos had challenged him. how he did not cease his ways of wanting others.

"i know your ways will not always be mine," kuktutux ended, alluding to the practices of sialuk that ariadne might well emulate. "and i do not think these men to have bad things in their hearts. but you will be a woman before the snows have ended. and they will seek your sleeping-place. before you share it, know the things they have not said and decide if you wish them as fathers to your young ones."

she studied ariadne's face, softening. "your taataa and i have raised many, many children together. i chose him. he chose me. that is all it took."