Moonspear unnuk ⦾

Nutuyikruk came charging up beside him! Then when she caught sight of the others, she hid away by anaa. Tautukpik moved without thinking so that he could stand between the two stranger kids and his grandmother, falling in to place as the protector of his sister.

One of them said a greeting, but the other asked about songs and singing. I don' sing, he answered innocently enough. Buh aaka sings! She sings for the baby. It was the only singing he'd ever witnessed in his short life — the mourning songs being some of the first pieces of music to touch his unfurled ears back in the forest village, and then the singing in the night as Ariadne had further mourned within Moonglow.