Ouroboros Spine salapkiksruk

in this way was kukutux offered a glimpse of what it meant to be a child of tartok.

atausiq became akmaaksi, and her grandmother's ears flicked with surprise to hear sakhmet's own quiet title now among them.

malguk became nutuyikruk, and kukutux smiled, seeing a good omen in how a totemic spirit of nuiruk would now follow the girl.

sisamat became tautukpik. but unlike the others, the boy did not seem so fixed upon the rite, singing quietly to something no one else could see.

and in sunshine ways, in protection of these children she loved, kukutux would later and silently devote akmaaksi to sedna as ikualiaktuk, nutuyikruk as nasittuk, and tautukpik as nalunaitchuk.

tartok names. sunshine souls. it was her furthest compromise.