Ouroboros Spine but what about your quiet treason?

Through all of their struggles Kigipigak kept his support there for his wife, his Issumatar; even as they neared Moonglow and a certain strain descended upon them. The children kept him preoccupied - Sisamat in particular had started to show signs of resistance and exhaustion, which Kigipigak should have held patience for - and while he wrangled the children together the family neared the village.

Asivaq moved to comfort him, or herself. To make a bid for connection which oddly, Kigipigak did not feel. He listened to her apology but said nothing. Now he had been stripped of another village, built another family only to watch it struggle. Was it fate that demanded this? Was he making wives of the wrong women? He struggled with his thoughts.

He loved Asivaq; he knew that, he was empowered by that. But if his mother saw him today with his alienated sons, missing ex-wife, exhausted children and a present wife struggling with self-doubt, he knew he would be disowned.

Taking a breath, he reaches for Asivaq and spares her a chaste kiss to the cheek, and then stands in wait with the children between them, expecting only the worst from Kukutux; the words of Meerkat still ringing in his mind, exacerbating his doubts.