Moonsong Glacier erginathus

while she had expected the interior to be somewhat dark it wasn't, and sulukinak was surprised by this. she wandered with silent steps along corridors and to one room or another and sniffed the ground and sought to taste the walls from time to time, curious of the inherent light that came from the ice, until she heard a voice and turned sharply and saw the man, who she knew but didn't know.

his voice echoed. she did not know what he had said but it sounded almost like magic with the way he said it and the way it carried. sulukinak blamed the sweeping chill that clung to her in that instant upon the ice around her.

she slunk closer to him but not too close and appeared to settle upon her haunches, watching him, and if his eye did find her there doing so, her tail would thump-thump-thump a rhythm through the cave.