Ouroboros Spine snow blade

tautukpik and akmaaksi were young, but kukutux was unsure they had ever been children.

her eyes moved in silence from one face to the other.

"but your father has just returned to the village," the duck murmured. "will you tell him? and where will you go?"

in whose name?

she did not demand from her grandchild. but these questions were her right to ask, and her responsibility to see that she had answers.

fornesjka raised its head. the eyes of akmaaksi and tautukpik shone a sweeter hope even if she understood deeply why they would leave what they had always known.