Qeya River chirosophist

she is his elder by a year, perhaps more. healthy because of her association with the saatsine, maybe. what had drawn a potential issumatar to an act of service rather than conquest?

she speaks, he listens. tension remains.
kukuvrak, son of none. raised by the outcast anisaġniq. these things would mean nothing outside of imauraqutak.

he doesn't back down, expecting the information to be reciprocated; he was glad to have found his own people here, but did not show it. for all kukuvrak knew this was yet another rival.