Northstar Vale kilaun ↭

lashes fluttered against the girl's cheekbones. she could not remember the sea; only that she had run to it to escape cry. and even now the thought of his glacial stare chilled kukutux.

hoping he would not suddenly reappear, the duck focused upon kalika. she did not understand what the other meant; kukutux did not feel timid. not before a woman, even when that woman might also be sedna.

feeling rather small, rather disparaged, foreign, other, kukutux blinked once, and then looked directly at kalika a long moment. "it is all i have left of her."

offering for tooteega finished, the girl straightened beneath the weight of what she had taken as insult. if the other wanted nothing more of her, she would be happy to depart.