Kildeer Rest only the beginning

What he was here to do and what anaa would have him do were two different things. How did he not see? Perhaps hunters were all like this. Oblivious to the ways the world worked beneath them. Had taataa been like this? Aiolos? Perhaps this was why Kukutux was able to make things as they were. Perhaps this was why she moved them here.

Anaa had made for Kigipigak not to choose her, and so he had not. He had chosen Lane, by way of anaa's doings. It was not even that Sialuk wished for Kigipigak for herself—only that he would fight for her the same way he would fight for Lane. But anaa had not made it so.

Then go hunt, Sialuk said brusquely. She did not need the company of a hunter who would not fight for her.