The Heartwood Omak

Kannoyak smiled, proud that she would share such kind words with him. The man had every intention of making his wife proud, of making his children good, helping them grow and learn. It had settled in him when he had watched the snow wolf give birth to a litter of three. Her eyes and the eyes of her husband had changed. Their spirits had grown in ways he could not understand, yet he could see.

Pathmaker is this man’s work. Walk the earth, connect one village to another so that they might trade. Find the safest paths and teach others to cross them. It is good work.

The cotton grass man was fond of his place in the world. It had helped him grow into the man he was - the man that would make some wife proud.