Ouroboros Spine juniperus

The disc forgotten as soon as it was found. It was meaningless without explanation, that which he feared, but the boy received the words and followed them from shadow, watching the witch as he emerged. Kiliutak had the heft of a man and the contrary weakness of a boy sagging and hunched in his draw from the crevasse, stepping over and around the disc of bone and then draping against the stone floor. He listened silently for a verdict, unable to raise his once defiant eyes upon Kukutux now, having had his place in the world solidified.