Totoka River odobenus

find others?

she had become like her mother after all.

lonely. listless. frightened.

these were not new, but sulukinak had never been fully and truly alone with her thoughts long enough to see these things within herself.

even now she was not really alone; but she felt it, this seeping otherness.

without a word she turned from the old man and slipped away, long legs devouring the terrain.