Ouroboros Spine snow blade

a tearing.

it hurt.

but with this pain, grandmother would not send hunters to follow. no one would hold worry as they had for nutuyikruk.

no one would be lost.

ikualiaktuk.

ah — she cradled it so hard that her eyes began to fill with tears, and her arms held grandmother snow duck close, close.

for a moment she allowed herself even to be held.

grief; akmaaksi decided it would not hunt her until they were far from moonglow village.