Ouroboros Spine sikkuktuk ⊮

arrluk had much upon his mind, and gently his mother took these things into her consideration. they would share the sound between them. galana — a breath drawn told her orca-son that she too thought of the girl and of the daughters lost.

there were many hopes placed upon arrluk's proud head. kukutux did not say them aloud.

there were many others for ajei.

the children who had lost their mothers filled her heart with keening grief. "i do not want kigipigak here, son of mine. he is no longer welcome." his costs were too great, and now a granddaughter who might once have built had been too shaken to stay.

kukutux reached out to the unknowable horizon.

"there is much pain. but there is the hope of beautiful things, arrluk," and with a smile here she paused, wondering if he might take up the vague strand of metaphoric sinew and bind it into a point.