Ouroboros Spine mamianaktuk ◸

"she knows of these things. i told her who he was and she still let herself be led astray!" had she ever been so foolish? kukutux did not think, not even when she loved kignitak and kisuk and uyagakagun, all together. all once, the three warring ostrega brothers.

but that had been her own silence to keep.

she was fiercely grateful for how shikoba rose against this man with her.

yet now as she thought of the grey trader, a horror filled her mind. "if i say anything against this man, ariadne will remove herself from me. you know this is true."

a breath. the terror grew. "many years ago a man died in anger on the glacier. i buried him there. i sang his death songs. i believed his spirit passed to sedna."

"but now a trader has come. and now a trader has come to the glacier, and he has sought what is not his. almost in anger."

her jadestone eyes were upon shikoba in worry. "do you remember adrastus?"