Moonsong Glacier monachus

she was not interested in the seals any longer; but he was, and kept on prattling about them, implying that sulukinak was incompetent first for not knowing this word or this creature, and next by speaking of seals as if they were somehow an oddity she had never seen before. he was not a northman, she learned; he did not know that her name was focused around the hunting of seals, and she was immediately put-off by the feeling of superiority that oozed from him.

sulukinak began to stalk away from the water, following the ice with a stiff gait. she gave a small derisive snort and said, if i wanted a seal, i would have one. despite the fact she'd never successfully hunted one before and only eaten from their carrion, in those rare instances her family had stumbled upon their bodies frozen to the ice; but he did not need to know that.

her path brought her climbing slowly away from the frigid lake, and those bobbing faces.