Hoshor Plains into the unknown

Kigipigak was deep in the throes of dream, which rarely came to him but now had hooks so deep he could not claw his way out.

The shadow of Sedna his mother with teeth bared, but laughing! Her voice commanding like a winter gale.

Ariadne jostles him as she rises. The void left in her absence informs the dream.

Snow floods his vision and only Sedna's eyes glow through it. The cold sweeps across him. Kigipigak is trapped beneath ice! He kicks and paddles, pressing against the glass ceiling and when it cracks...

He wakes to the sound of retching. The dream recedes. He sees his wife is not there and seeks her out, finding her ripe with foulness; but he doesn't say anything, only settles near her and drapes himself across her lower back, to be present and to soothe.