Ouroboros Spine baby you're a haunted house

she moved, and he was quick to see it.

agitated by the arrival of the man, tautukpik was on high-alert; hypervigilant for the sake of his remaining family. for any order from sister. should he go and send this man away? he did not want to part from akmaaksi.

she looked to him, her paw raised. he saw her meaning; she was wordless, and had been for a long while, and tautukpik had learned to understand. nobody would ever understand her better, he thought.

you want to run? that wasn't the way he meant to insinuate it, but the words tumbled from him sharply. tautukpik expected the winter-man to be upon them swiftly, or at least to hear the thunder of his voice, something to make him worth running from. all it took was the look upon sister's face for tautukpik to swallow how he felt about all of this.

ok, we go. he presses his nose to her scruff, striding alongside.