Barrow Fields uujaujaq ⋇

it is good to know you, val. curious as that saying was, val liked it. he decided he might save it, and say it some day. it was different than the way his parents or packmates spoke, but it had the same message -- the same feeling of comradeship and oneness.

he wasn't smart enough to immediately understand what kukutux meant after, but he was intuitive - and he thought, not for the the first time, that there was a shadow in her gaze he could not quite place. "not a traveler. i be lost." val admitted with a sunny grin, not in the least perturbed. he did, after all, get "misplaced" often. "maybe i can help you find the missing? what is?"