Duskfire Glacier after midnight

the details were not for this woman to know.
it had been hard enough to speak on it with her dutch man, many months ago; a lifetime, it felt like. she knew it was something understood—at least in part—by suliya's people, the muradoii... but even there her mother nukilik had been an outlier. no, sulukinak could not explain.
she shakes her head, jaw tightening, eyes averting briefly as a shadow passes over her.

i came looking for strong man. i found... faust, and blackwell; perhaps others would arise before her time was over. i found what i needed.
was she loyal to darukaal? hardly. faust had seen a weak and flighty stray in need of his protection, and for that sulukinak was thankful, but she was also capable. she had paid back that kindness.
she was a hunter. this hunt was over.
i do not need his protection. i go with the caribou.
and she was moving, then. having shared at least this clue, mindlessly.