Ouroboros Spine not today

it hurt her because she knew it might hurt panuk and she knew it hurt her mother.

she held little worries on her dear elkman, who might settle wherever she wished with good hunting and company.

i think panuk is tied to the land. she whispered, not with fear but with heartache. knowing these things might hurt worse. to know that blood might still remain in that grove, living or not.

i will go and speak to him, but i am dedicated to being his ajâtsuk too, anaa.

silently she begged her mother to understand.

soon the boy would be upon his first year, but he was still young with much to learn. of himself, of the world.