Moonsong Glacier the place I want to be is somewhere in your heart

It was strange how heavy the burden of leadership had seemed. He felt lighter now, even with Tulugak heavy against him. The word she poured into him were heavy, too, but he felt stronger for hearing them — for being the one that she spoke to.

"Ulloriaq," he repeated. The back of his neck prickled as if in premonition. "What does it mean?"

But of course, Ulloriaq had questions of her own. He didn't hesitate this time when he said, "Yes." A morning village could not belong to a moondaughter any more than a moon village could have belonged to him. "Things are beginning to settle. Our sunset man still hunts with me, and I think that I have found him a bride — Eira. Shadow girl remains, though she is still quiet. Leith — " He picked his shoulder up in an uneasy shrug. "Silent hunter travels. It hurt her most of all, I think."

He looked down at their paws.

"More have come. Some may stay, but others, I think, will not." He lifted his eyes once more, searching hers. "But you are home — and you make this the home I wanted it to be."