Ouroboros Spine uuquchiingix̂

just lore smh

"to be atsak, you must know what it is to be wife and to be anaa," kukutux answered gently, a smile attendant on her mouth.

nantahala was familiar in the way of memories, of herself in girlish delight draping herself in fine furs and asking her mother many things.

"in my first days, a girl found an ugi between six and nine moon. it is only to say that you might be married, an ugi. the true choice must wait for much more time. and," kukutux went on, "this was mostly done because our chieftains chose to live very far from one another, aya. villages with many days between them. eleven. fifteen. the clan of my own mother was twenty days away. she did not go home after she came to live with my father. her own clan was too far." 

there were many things the duck had put away from herself before moonglow village was built.

but sometimes it was good to wonder what of those times should have been kept.