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Just as quickly as hope ballooned in her chest, Asivaq’s words of warning popped it. Meerkat’s lips parted as if to refute the woman’s opening remark, though she pressed them together and listened to the subsequent explanation. She agreed that Kukutux was a powerful figure, though the way Asivaq told it, it sounded as if Sialuk’s mother was a threat.

If you don’t mind my asking, what are these ways of Tartok? And what exactly is the nature of this estrangement? In case Asivaq didn’t feel inclined to share, Meerkat added, I only ask so that I can make an informed judgment call of my own. It would not sit right with me to simply say, ‘Oh, okay,’ and walk away from Njord’s aiokotti and his pregnant wife.