Ouroboros Spine akiguk ∺

kukutux appraised zane for a long moment. she knew it was unseemly of her to look upon a man so directly, but her husband was not present. thus the duck must treat such a meeting as if she had invited a trader to eat at her ulaq. but what did this man have to trade? a flare of her obsidian nostrils.

bartering was more than trinkets or meat. it was for moral reasons that one sought a trade, to right some wrong or trade something greater for what you might have before disregarded. was there appreciation in him? she saw nothing of that; he did not want to be beholden, not even to the land that gave them life.

"if i say 'you should stay in this place, zane,' what is this meaning of this to you?" she wanted hunters for their village. he wished to be seen by all but had not discerned himself in the way that raimo had done. her eyes were watchful.