Ouroboros Spine kinuk ⊹

kukutux rearranged her forelegs, as much for comfort as to give herself more moments of thought. 

to remake a man. was it good of her to consider such things? he did not know her ways. but kukutux did not even know them, for if this had a taboo tied to it, she had not heard of the curse. 

he did not feel connected to his first life. aya, that must be it. when he lay in pain, a spirit had come and entered his body through the leg. two lived inside him now. patroclus had been severed in the anguish of the cracked bone. 

a nod. "a new man should have a new name." she passed her tongue over several words, but did not speak them — yet. 

kukutux did not yet know if he had thought of such for himself.