Firefly Glen [PHE] kimmiurat ⧤

for a moment kukutux only studied akavir, not understanding.

but then she shook her head with the determination of the elder which the silver fur proclaimed she had become. "i will not see you leave. or them. if you make a path away from this place, it is your choosing and i will accept it."

he held a father's disappointment; she saw it and understood. "there is much work to be done in a gathering that will be so long a time. our dirt must be cleared from around camp and buried far each day. fallen leaves must be carried off as they fall so that great heaps do not form. there is offal to be cleaned from the belly of animals and pits to be dug for the healers and their teas. hunting is great honor. many wish to be chosen."

do not choose them if they do not earn it, her gaze communed, though kukutux was far too polite to offer words so openly upon what might be a father's decision as well. "i accept too, your offering that an apology be made. ajei is a woman with much kindness. she will hear them."

and she would know if they were truly contrite.