Northstar Vale mitautigigaa ➻

agana was acting strangely. it had been the mink-woman who had discredited the odd warm feeling kuktutux had begun to bear for her, who had made them only companions, who had —

the duck listened, adding a third and bitter thing to the aforementioned list. so swiftly did agana make their meeting formal. so easily did she list the symptoms of early pregnancy. was her goal to hurt kukutux?

"have you been with a man?" the girl asked quietly, eyes downturned to her moving task. but her heart ached. she vowed to the listening tooteega that she would not think of agana again.