Ouroboros Spine Hear your voices sing back louder

Brother; they had nursed beside one another once, not so very long ago, yet Nasamiituuq felt she looked upon a stranger when Ipiktok called out to her and she turned to greet him. Her tail waved nonetheless; it warmed her to see him well, to see him home and know that her family thrived in her absence. Brother, it is so good to see your face, She embraced him as she would any of Moonglow, nose pressing briefly to his cheek.

Then her grandmother came to greet her, and Nasamiituuq saw nothing else. Grandmother! She cried, voice soft even so, and wrapped her arms tightly round the woman who she had always idolized, who seemed somehow smaller and frailer and more tired than she had when Nasamiituuq left. Maybe it was only that she had grown so much. Oh, I missed you terribly...

The warmth of tears threatened her golden eyes, but Nasamiituuq blinked them away to smile at her grandfather, moving to hug him now too. I've come to stay, She told him, eyes shining. Moonglow will always hold my heart.