Ouroboros Spine Tlatehiin

Making an assumption about this.

Aaka had gone, presumably in search of Nutuyikruk. Tautukpik stayed behind to watch over Akmaaksi and felt the deepest urge to cry and to hide away in the sleeping place; but he knew he had to be strong because aaba wasn't there to watch them, and now aaka had gone away too.

He worried over his sister who was hunting for their aaba and found solace by murmuring pleas to Big Sister.

Please bring Nutu home soon, and aaba, and aaka. Please. It okay if they mad, or sad. I will listen. I will be good.

It would be a day or two before anyone came to visit the ulaq where the two children remained, and by then they were hungry and they were thirsty, and they were bundled in a heap together. But when the first body passed by the opening of the sleeping place Tautukpik would be there to greet Ariadne — unaware that it was not her that came at all.

It was a shimmering green shape, perhaps a result of extended hunger and the sorrow in Tautukpik's heart. It looked like his aaka at first; but then he saw another shape, one like the pale man with the beaver pelt he had ruined. They stood out of reach in the sunlight — and Tautukpik rushed out of the ulaq after them.

He ran right in to a real, physical body and as he collided, the shimmering green of the magic lights went out.