Ouroboros Spine baby you're a haunted house

the greenlight had faded when mother had left them.

the ancestors did not speak to him now, and he had forgotten if they ever really had.

they did not warn him of the coming cold-front that was his father, and it was only when akmaaksi stutter-stepped in this new way that tautukpik stopped to look; and he saw there, winter cleaved cleanly in the shape of a wolf.

akmaaksi sank. tautukpik hurried to her side, and stood tall, and watched; but he wanted to sink too. when sister moved on, brother lingered for only a breath more, and hurried to keep to her flank.