Ouroboros Spine nivaktaktuk

When she spoke he expected to be turned away, or maybe scorned outright. Very few women of this village had been welcoming to him; not even his wife, when she had been his wife, had put forth any effort. Her time had been spent away from the living children in favor of the idea of a dead one.

Rather than tell him off or cut him down with anything scathing, Callyope shared some information which held a similar effect, although it had not been presented in a harmful manner. The thought that his children were not even here, somehow, was wounding. It felt like a punch to the gut.

His ex-wife had promised him access; but even so, he was removed from their lives, and Kigipigak could not know their daily adventures.

I—yes. It took a moment to recover himself. And to tell Asiv— Ariadne, that I have found a place in another village. If she cared at all about his whereabouts, that is.