Ocean's Breath Plateau walking smoke

set after the depature! <3

in a daze chakliux moved back toward the lodges, now glaringly absent of tullik or kilalurak. as if he did not see anyone, his eyes moved over the shelters, over the somber faces among them.
but present now was another: @Nantahala. her arrival here had spoken of moon woman's power, and chakliux resented his perception that kukutux had only ignored him.
but he would not place that negativity upon the young woman. instead he called for her, waiting beside the main lodge where marina quietly rested within. 
"my wife tullik has gone," the seal hunter said without preamble. "if your grandmother means you to be one of us, then you will live here. marina will teach you, and you will help her with the rest of the work and the sea-fishing."
he was not unkind, but his face telegraphed a powerful, eating sadness, one which deadened his voice from its usual joviality.