Ouroboros Spine but what about your quiet treason?

What would he do if they were not welcome? Kigipigak focused on this to avoid his deeper troubles, but this brought to mind other issues he had put aside in favor of Napatuqvik; standing here upon the border of Moonglow, he remembered the last time the pair had been here together, the shame, the judgement. He could not forsee Kukutux refusing her daughter or the children - but he wondered now if he was welcome. He wondered also if he could put aside his Tartokian pride in order to submit to the Sunshine People.

Kukutux came running; Asivaq was all tears, happy to see her mother, exhausted by the turmoil of recent days, and each tear was like a stain upon Kigipigak's spirit. He saw how young she was now. How the forest had eaten away at her. How shattered she was by everything - and knew he had done his best but, this girl did not need her husband, she needed her mother.

He stood back and waited as Asivaq spilled forth the various failures of her man, the crumbling of their village. Although she looked appreciatively to Kigipigak the man steeled against it, and reflexively looked to the children. He did not speak as he felt it was not his place to; and besides that, he could hide his feelings by doing his job as a father.