Ouroboros Spine avaalaruk ⋕

They lay outside the ulaq in an eternal sleep together; she and the pale man he did not know, yet Kigipigak saw himself there when he looked, and he could not look for long.

Soon would come the death songs.

A daughter was still missing. Kigipigak needed to go back to Brecheliant; words must be spoken, news shared, a hunt continued.

Time was still. The world quiet, claustrophobic. Kigipigak had no words.