Porcupine Ridge auntblood

it was in his eyes.
chakliux blinked and turned his own out upon the snow. he did not believe that he had seen what his eyes had beheld in dutch. the seal hunter was used to such flickering expressions from women, to a degree where when he saw it otherwise, the nuance remained unknown.
and yet as he shifted his body against that of the hunter, he would remember the way that dutch had held his eyes upon their hunt.
for now, he grunted. "let us save our hearts for sleep," he joked. "we hunt a monster. we will need our strength." 
he thought of tullik and marina; he thought of hospitality between lodge and hunting-brother; he considered dutch among them, as he had once wanted kannoyak to be.
chakliux exhaled.