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a seal hunter indeed! chakliux flashed a white grin at dutch to hear this praise. "if you stay with us enough, perhaps you will earn your own marks," he chuffed, nudging raiyuk as they came close to the seals.
dutch spoke of their singing, of their resonance. of spirit and sound. this time he did look at the man a bit more closely, for in these words did chakliux taste an answering salt. he glanced to raiyuk now, then settled between them to gaze at the great bodies of the seals below.
"do you see how fat they are, raiyuk? this is utsuk. blubber. it is in layers. a seal must be bled from many places before it will die."
a solemnity came to him. "when it is time for your hunt, we will go into the water together. you will see how much faster kasigiak is beneath the waves. but you too, raiyuk, are swift. i will help you to wound the seal. you must stay down as long as you are able for this fighting. see his teeth? he will bite back. be fast. lunge as he does, jerk away as he does. when his blood is red in the water you must be ready to hold him down beneath it until he drowns."
this was the most dangerous part of the seal hunt entire. in any moment a boy might die. in the final struggle, if he did not gulp his lungs full of air before he went under, he would surely die. "when his blood is red in the water, you go up first, raiyuk. take your largest breath. then you will be ready. do not forget to take the breath. i cannot be with you after you go under the last time."