Ouroboros Spine kinaalda

Arrluk did not see much of Ajei in the four days following her mother's death. She was preforming the rights of her mother's people, ones which Arrluk was unaware of. He had sought out his mother, to know of them and waited patiently each time Ajei returned from her runs. Little words spoken between them. @Kukutux always had been far more comforting. Arrluk lacked any that might ease Ajei's pain and her pain became his own, knotting up in his chest and making his stomach feel like an empty pit. He did not eat. 

Then Ajei began her hunts. She was gone for quite some time and Arrluk felt grave worry for the girl, who was both studying to be a counselor and medic- not a swift scout, not a hunter (though fisher). Arrluk began to pace by the lake in the same fashion his father would pace when with worry. 

When Ajei returned, she was battered, bloodied and bruised. Arrluk had searched until he found her and sought out the attention of his mother when he did. He did not leave her side that night. 

On the fourth day when she called for Kukutux, Arrluk came, though remained at a distance respectfully so, as he knew his farher did during births and during the womens circle. Having not eaten for these four days, he examined the food laid out, his mouth watering at the sight of the fish and weasel, both which were both as nostalgic to him as to Ajei. She now would wear scars on her face the same as his mother, as @Galana, as @Vaire. It only seemed right. As he had become man in his spirit-walk, she had now become woman.