Ouroboros Spine nivaktaktuk

Perhaps it was a wise thing to tell her to do, but suddenly she was sly and perhaps unbecoming.

If I ask and she says no, it would break a heart to know I sneak away to hear lessons. There was humor in her words. As if she was still a girl who might sneak away to see the world all over again. She had already done so!

But she had not seen Tartok and its ways, not as her sister had.

I will sit with them and learn. No asking, it has been decided for myself. Her tone implied that if she had a hand, it might have waved to ward off any argument. Yet the smile on her face now showed her gratefulness for his willingness to let her intrude.