Ouroboros Spine nivaktaktuk

When a figure came in to view, Kigipigak wondered if it was Asivaq—then, Kukutux—and saw it was neither. He recognized Callyope just as she began to speak, and was focused as he heard the way she greeted him. Although she called him Tartok man it was not with the derision he would have otherwise anticipated; then she began to approach, and he settled to watching her, and placed his bundle carefully down between his paws. It was nothing too grand: some feathers from the ground birds living around the caldera, a sizable femur (which could've been from a fawn), and a strip of fur the size and length of a small weasel wrapping around it all.

Sunshine woman, he answered her. I am here to visit my children. He phrased it as a statement but there was an obvious question there, in his expression. May I?