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there was still a stone in her heart when she thought of him. it was comforted by the idea that kigipigak had been led to her for helping the spirit move beyond. there was a kinship there; it felt as though she and the other were cousins of a kind. that was how she had begun to think of him. 

the redsun called for her, and kukutux looked up from where she had been plucking the underbelly of a rabbit. she nudged the carcass into the cache by the entrance of the ulaq, and then set down the mountainside with a wrap of mottled buckskin around her shoulders against her shoulders.

she was surprised to hear his summons, and considering that it might have to do with huojin, the duck came promptly. "it is good to see you well," she told him when she had drawn close. there was an expression in the man she sensed, something she had not felt from him before. kukutux was quiet, springjade eyes searching aiolos.