Ocean's Breath Plateau rosmarus

cen shook his head, squatting upon his haunches beside sulukinak as she surveyed the cooling caribou carcass. "i know only the names you have said. never have i met a child of aniktuktun until now. if he had sons, i did not know them."

as the story went, the shaman nukilik had possessed aniktuktun and carried him off to the black ice. "bah! do not tell me you lived like those reeking fish-eaters who call themselves seal hunters," cen groused. "look. now you have me to bring you meat. eat it. you should be among your own people anyway, sulukinak," cen said firmly, taking charge of the situation and of her in the only show of affection he knew how to make. "why do you not live in the sea-village?"