Raven's Watch flame-farewelled

"without a moon daughter, there is no moon. dutch will be a good leader." 

but it will no longer hold the name nuiruk.

she wondered if ariadne understood what she had surrendered, and held the weeping brother to the warm love of her chest, his pain heaving against her as if she were seacliff overlooking the long salt.

perhaps she had babied ariadne; perhaps she should have stood that day and commanded her daughter to act as leader of the village she had built.

almost did moonmother even wish that the girl had chosen chakliux! at least as a seal hunter wife she would not be lost to the reaches of the teekon.

a sigh riffled through the fur of fjall's shoulder as she at last parted them.

"there is no moon daughter. but there is a son of the moon."

the glacier might be in their blood once more, morning and moon mingled.