Ouroboros Spine adakite

they tore it apart.

tautukpik drove it screaming with his power; akmaaksi responded in resounding ferocity with her own.

the rat-thing was slaughtered wholesale;

even when she ran red with blood did her heart continue to pound, teeth clenched as if she wanted still to rip and to tear.

what was it? she did not know, did not hardly care. what mattered was that it was dead, that this unseemly change to their life was gone now.