Ocean's Breath Plateau walrus fat

"and i am ready to sit with you in the sun outside our lodges and listen to their laughter," the seal hunter said quietly, still unwilling to part physical contact with dutch as if the panther would simply cease to exist.
it had been harder to have him gone than chakliux had realized. more fearsome. more horrifying, the emptiness left behind in their homes.
"you will see our sons become men," he grinned with realization. "in the cold of spring, they will take their seals. raiyuk had seen eleven months. they will train until then."
theirs. ours. all chakliux possessed belonged in grateful part to the man before him.