Big Salmon Lake kuak ⛣

for @Jarilo, no rush <3 all other tags for reference!

thinking of @Sialuk and what the girl's future would hold, kukutux shifted her mind to @Saviguk. if @Bronco was any indication of how long boyhood would be, she had ample time to procure a wife for her ice crystal. but the fact remained that the dark-gold young warrior was not a boy, it was simply that within the teekon, the rites of maleness were a delayed affair. therefore, she must begin her hunt in the warm months. 

it seemed to be the same for girls, though sialuk had quelled much worry in kukutux' heart with her new voice and new influx of questions. so long as she kept her daughter's paws upon a marked path, the duck knew the spirits that spoke in sialuk's blood would lead her to the correct culture.

there was also the matter of her husband, the snowdown mused. she had departed moonspear and cut a near-straight path for the lake not far off. with the mountain still rising not-distant and proud at her back, kukutux waded into the overwhelmed shoreline, snapping playfully at a frog that did not leap when the water rippled. what would jarilo think of her plans? he had never criticized his strange wife's foreign ways, even going so far as to learn parts of the words she spoke. but it was different when it came to one's children; the blackfox was still an ostrega man, and might want his children to grow up in the ostrega way.