Moonsong Glacier erginathus

his name was beautiful. she wondered what it might mean, but before sulukinak could ask her mind was taken by his next statement, that her dutch man was son.

sulukinak had never met a father before, not that she knew of, and promptly forgot about her interest in his name to fixate on this detail. curiosity drew her closer.

he asked after the land of ice, and remembering herself, she stops short and sits again.

we called it the everdark. she divulged.

ice and sea, and darkness for many moons. when the sun would come my mother-- she would say we must hide, so... this was a fine detail sulukinak had never shared before, this hiding. i had not seen the sun much before leaving. this place here, it is sun all the time.

it was sun, and warmth, and so far a much more forgiving place than her birth home. dutch made sure of that.