Ouroboros Spine You won't know your worth now, son, until you take a hit

"i traded with a spirit-talker, to know if you belonged to the clan of ostrega."

kukutux would not allow the grey bear of a boy ignore her.

"she made a path to the world of spirits, to talk to the one i once gave the name of brother."

kukutux, fading, exhausted, placing herself upon the shoreline. she could not make him see. she could not bring him reason. 

and so she said nothing more, letting the wall of silence that nuak wished to grow and expand between them.