Ouroboros Spine tapvani ⦲

kukutux felt as though she would be watching kigipigak walk into a marriage.

in this, he had no cousin or father to do for him what they might, no brother. he had wandered long, and not settled when the old man had offered him much. but how could a young hunter put up his knives and learn to be father instead, before he was ready? men too had their ways. kigipigak was not a boy. 

as she trudged in the small acrid-smelling pool where she had crushed the heads of fungus and stripped bark, sitting now for many days beneath sun's stare, kukutux smiled. she could only be a sister, here. 

"@Kigipigak," she said, motioning him into the beginning of the day. "come to see what i have made."

a gift, before he departed moonglow to be with sakhmet.