Ouroboros Spine suagutsik ⏧

the hot palm of summer had lifted. with the cooling air came strength to kukutux.

in the evening, she gently moved her daughters one by one to a wide strip of doeskin laid upon the ground outside. keeping an eye trained upon @Samani and @Kausiut, she began to clear the spring's debris from the ulaq.

it was hard and dusty work, but moonwoman was happy to be rid of the offal. time now to hunt for pine-boughs and cedarwood, to lie beneath the pelts through the winter.

@Kigipigak! she knew he was inside the village but had not yet seen him, and she paused now in her task to call for the winterhawk.