Ouroboros Spine Trust I seek, and I find in you.

this warmly pleased the heart of the duck.

they came to the ulaq, which would be quite unchanged to the eyes of the younger woman, save for the addition of new bison furs and a hanging ram-skull.

she gathered summer-dried sage and crushed it atop slices of thick bison-meat, jellied with fat, then put this all upon birchbark and offered it to ciri.

"i am training vairë as moonwoman to follow me." kukutux settled comfortably across from ciri, pulling a pile of plush caribouskin across her haunches. "you have come back again. your heart is with moonglow. what does it now want, ciri?" came her earnest, soft question after a time.