Ouroboros Spine suagutsik ⏧

Few knew the man as well as Kukutux; it was unlikely any would call for him, and yet her voice carried across the village proper and reached for him.

The man had been preparing a gift gathered with Shikoba; it was not so well-made as anything the woman could accomplish but Kigipigak had done his best. The fox had been young and brightly colored. Kigipigak had done the work of pulling free the skin and cleaning the flesh from it, so that only the pelt remained.

It wasn't finished, nor anywhere near perfect, but when he heard his kin calling for him Kigipigak gathered it up and went on his way. He approached quickly, exuberantly, and looked upon Kukutux with her new daughters.