Ouroboros Spine attukuanniyaila

her gambit did not work, but kukutux only glanced aside when tautukpik turned in the opposite direction. she could ask him to do this thing. she could insist that he did. but there was no desire to do so even in the recognition of her own power.

the duck was silent for some time.

"the kiirik is a spirit being. sometimes it is only a kiirik. but other times it is a tupilak. and sometimes they are even ijiraq, those who change shape."

"the world is not all what it seems when you see first, tautukpik. there is a second eye which grows behind the first two. it is with this that you will one day see the world as it is."