Qeya River qasigiaq

She had left him to learn, and now seeing him she wondered what lessons had been missed in her absence. Down one eye from before, but now an ear too? The wounds looked fresh enough; she did not smell fever.

Sulukinak had returned more of a hunter and a sleuth, not a woman of medicine. What help could she provide now?

This place? She wanted to know more; was he building something or merely lashing out like the yearlings on the hunt?