Ocean's Breath Plateau I'll be the hero you're dreaming of.

near samani's death ulaq had chakliux buried the three children who had not survived their birth.
that was five passed on, he mused with pain as he sat back upon his haunches and looked down at the turned earth over the tiny graves, far too small to engender anything in his heart but grief.
in silence the seal hunter returned to the lodge, where he brightened to see the living pups, now round and squirming among the pelts of their bed. little sea hunter he took into the crook of his arm and lay down among the five children, murmuring to their mothers that he was here for a time and they could do whatever else they desired.