Ouroboros Spine panik

He had run himself ragged through the Neverwinter again, and in to the north, and everywhere he could think to look; but the days went on and still there was no sign of Nutuyikruk. Kigipigak even returned to the lake to see if she was there, netted by the reeds or - but, no, he found nothing. He found nothing and he had two children to keep watch over now.

How long had he been away from them? And what of Brecheliant? Kigipigak mourned by doing this work, and now that he reached the conclusion that he was to be alone as a father, and that he had failed again, and in this tremendous way, he was almost afraid to return to Akmaaksi (@Atausiq) or Tautukpik.

Yet he climbed the mountain anyway. He crossed the boundary in to the village anyway. He sought the sleeping place of @Vaire and then @Kukutux, afraid to meet their eyes, but needing to find his remaining son and daughter.

And when he came to rest, his eyes traced the shape of the Firemother in the distance, having been led there by his mindlessness and broken heart again - the same as when his own mother had died.