Snowforest Taiga Anguished.

Kigipigak was genuinely confused by the rejoinder offered by the man; he held no issue with women or their duties, and wasn't connecting the dots properly as he listened. Was he meant to be offended by the man's jabs? He wasn't. He would have given anything to be back home with his mother; not at her teet of course, but serving her faithfully.

I depend on myself. He states flatly, losing whatever humor had colored his cheeks before. You dig a hole like a new mother. Do you have a wife? It is too big for those pitiful rabbits so it cannot be a cache, so it went that Kigipigak tried to understand. Men need not dig themselves in to trenches and dens were for women with heavy bellies.

A moment later Kigipigak snorts a little laugh, eyeing the man and then the scrape he has managed in the dirt, then the snow piling up all around. You do not sleep in the open like a man. Do you need a woman's help to survive? He could think of no other reason why the man would be here, rather than eating his rabbits and moving on.