Ouroboros Spine blood of Akhlut

she.

kukutux inhaled, and her eyes shimmered.

but she was silent as her son spoke onward.

she understood, and nodded quickly. "such a strong totem and fierce power has been given to you, arrluk. and now you are a man."

she was first to say it, first to assure; her son had walked the way of sunshine men for years before him and had returned to his village, changed and touched by the spirits.