Ocean's Breath Plateau rosmarus

he was not from the land of ice and darkness, and that knowledge made something within sulukinak deflate.

he used words she did not know. they were pretty sounding and as a result her head tilted one way, then another; but then she shook her head and dropped her eyes.

the confusion was stronger but it was something sulukinak warred with alone. she could try other things—and she mentions next, i am called sulukinak. my mother is nukilik, a shaman.

what else?

my father's name was - aniktuktun? she had to think on this as she said it. her mother had only shared this information one time, during the worst night of sulukinak's life.

it was hard to think back to that. her spine straightens as she speaks, and yet her eyes appear far away.