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His touch was welcomed with an affectionate smile as he listened to Chakliux - his father - speak again, his words resonating strongly with all he had felt over the past months. "Thanks, I-I think I needed to hear that," he swallowed thickly. "I dunno what I'm meant for really," he confessed then, joining him as they gazed out to sea. "I'm still figuring it out, but I want to learn everything."

His eyes searched for something intangible then, something out of reach, before they softened. 

If he would partake in his own seal hunt next winter or not, Matteo wanted nothing more than to work hard for his family and prove to Chakliux he was worthy of being called his son.

"I'd be proud to call myself a seal hunter, and you my father, and Raiyuk my brother."