Hoshor Plains Bison Hunt 2 [Kaluktuk's Group]

ice mother would never have believed her telling of this hunt, of these people, of the enormous beasts and many teeth. sulukinak could scarcely believe it all herself; relegated to a group of hunters unwittingly, a booming man looking to each of them and made commands.

it was loud, busy, and frightening. this ordeal shocked her, this girl that walked with her mother and brothers; to go from a place of great silence and reaching cold, of the everdark, to this.

away they went. bodies splitting apart to seek the beasts; sulukinak swift on her feet and silent always, but her speed tapering the closer she got to the herd. the beasts were larger than anything she had ever hunted before!

at the last moment she paled, slowed, and watched those hunters speed along the plain away from her - and then she was frozen. there wasn't yet enough loyalty within sulukinak to make her commit to this. neither was there any error in her mind for turning and racing the other way, back to the camps.