Hoshor Plains eumetopias

for each thing the woman told, there came also a piece of fat for sulukinak. she took both eagerly. her lips became slick with the fat and she licked at them between morsels. when the woman said the word anaa her ears gave a twitch—she knew this word.

her eyes finally lit upon the woman with something like curiosity. still, it felt taboo to speak her name. but these people were different from her mother; the man dutch had given his name to her once, and when the hunt was being made there were names flowing from everywhere.

quietly, then. sulukinak.

i am sulukinak. to remind herself.