Redtail Rise having dinner with the candelight

"Her name was Samani," her voice barely a whisper above the distant roar. Though Kukutux allowed them now to speak of the dead, Yuralria did not wish to draw superstition. But Sobeille was curious, and Yuralria could respect that if not the sea itself.

For the unknown excited her as much as it instilled fear.

The stargirl took a seat in the snow, wrapping her tail feline-like to warm her paws. "Sedna is the all-mother. The sea. She gives life to this land, but she can also take it just as easily." Nanuralaaq's words, borrowed. There was a flicker of sadness in her eyes as she thought of an auntie she had never met, and then of the countless others scattered by the wind.

"The sunshine wolves say that when we die, our souls return to the sea. Do you believe this?"