Silver Creek nutaaq

The hunters they had encountered were quick to welcome them. When Kigipigak spoke of his wife to them, it was Sugnasiuq who was first to wish them well and that put aside all doubts. The days and nights became one long moment spent in the company of people he might not have known personally, but were of his people; and when the time came for the pair to wed, it was Sugnasiuq and her husband Ilikpaluk that opened their hearth to them. It was these hunters of Kinniq that helped his new wife to shed her name and become Asivaq.

As they came to the Wilds again, Kigipigak felt refreshed. He saw the way the travel had changed Asivaq: more than becoming his wife, she was becoming an issumatar, and a round one! She rested by the water's edge and Kigipigak silently came up beside her, humming a tune that Sugnasiuq had been singing days ago. He stopped when he saw Asivaq's gaze lingering on the horizon in the direction of her sister's village.

I will make camp? He offered. In these days without any support, and having left both the claim of the Tartok hunters behind and the hearth of Moonsong, Kigipigak was singularly focused on Asivaq's happiness. He would often do the work without question; but he wanted now to know his wife's inner thoughts.