Ouroboros Spine ᐊ ukkuq

could I get Ippi added back to the ranks? She fell inactive. Thank you!

 
 the pelt is heavy with meltwater, slick against her teeth as she pulls. sinew creaks. frost gathers in the pale strands of her muzzle where her breath clouds and settles, and the air smells of hide, salt, and the faint tang of smoke from her ulax nearby.

she braces her paws, narrow body tense with effort, one blue eye, one yellow, glinting sharp beneath the pale morning light. it is good work—honest work. she hums under her breath, something low and tuneless, a rhythm to the scrape of her claws and the tug of the skin across the drying frame.

wind snakes through the valley, catches the edges of the stretched caribou hide, flutters it like a flag. she steadies it with a grunt, pulling again until the fibers sing taut.