Firefly Glen ivalu ✦

it was done in silence as she plodded, but kuktutux offered also a prayer to isitoq for arcturus, and then another to aulanerk for revui.

the inner words were followed almost immediately by the soft voice of dirge, and the duck paused to greet him with a deferential backfold of her pale ears. "ai, brother," the rounded girl greeted. 

what had brought him about? perhaps he looked for danger that threatened his newborns, though belatedly wondered if dirge would not take warmly to her small outside journey.