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firegirl did not reject snowfather.

she did not welcome him.

akmaaksi had found his scent upon her return to the village; she had followed it at a pace which slowed and slowed.

for the first time in a long while, her heart began to pound; the girl crumpled to the ground and panted helplessly, one paw clenched into the body of her cardinal.

blood-red feathers marked where it had fallen, and it stood out in its own hue against the greyred of her coat as she came over the bend and found aapa there.

casting her eyes at him as she went past, akmaaksi offered scheming grandmother's tradition of politeness. 

but all firegirl had come to need was tautukpik.