Firestone Hot Springs moontooth

he bowed his head then, to think of the man who had given his life. slow west. in some ways, it felt that the conventions of naming might be similar between the white spine and the seal hunters, which pleased him in some inscrutable way.
dutch had seen many things. had done many things, and in each sharing chakliux felt that he grew closer to the other hunter.
"mikiak carries stories on his body," the seal hunter commented, "as do i. but for both we had respect, for we have fear of these beasts. it is the fear you conquered with tendua; this is the same as being beneath the water with your chest burning and blood in your mouth."
his heart thundered; he was suddenly fiercely proud and at the same time fiercely frightened for raiyuk, and wondered if his own father had been scared to watch his son descend below those waves.