Ouroboros Spine you look so worn, so thin

Yes. He answered with a sureness. Arrluk had adapted his concise ways from his father, perhaps Galana had too. She had always been quiet and observant. She and Arrluk in their youth would sit and watch as their brothers tugged at the ears and tail of Chickadee as they romped. She was still this, but the pain in her eyes are obvious. Arrluk lacked the words to comfort. 

After our elder sister died, a deep sorrow fell on the moon tribes. Mom said it was time for us boys to go on our journeys to become man. Arrluk spoke and in this, telling her some things she had missed. Kassuq and Massaraq I think both went far. Gone far longer and both came back injured. I barely left the Wilderness, went south, circled around the mountains and got back to the coast. 

He pauses, his eyes shifting away from the lake water and back to his sister and the new scarring on her face which she held. Their mother held scars on her muzzle too, and shoulder. Vaire did on her cheek. It was nice enough, to see new places, new water, but all I wanted to do was get back home. I might spend time with the other tribes, I think, but regardless, my place is right here, with family. "Right here" meaning among the tribes, where there family spread so vastly.