Moonspear it won't break me

I am well, Sialuk said, then turned away to unwrap the skins, marveling at the dried meat inside. The children would enjoy the treat, she thought. It would not take them long to devour it all, growing as they were. She smiled, turning back to Towhee.

-Thank you,- she signed, glad to have learned what little she had from the girl's mother.

Your mother, does she know you live with the village? Sialuk asked. I will not tell her if you do not wish it, but I do not doubt she wishes to see you again. It had to have been difficult to lose her father the way that she had. It seemed he had simply vanished into the night, never to return. Sialuk had found that many men did this when their offspring entered the picture. It was an odd thought to her, seeing as her own father, Aiolos, Argent had always wished to be so involved in her own children's lives. And there was Rodyn, who had all the reason to up and depart, and yet he stayed for the sake of his sons.