Totoka River talgaktuk

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The sudden, wonderful arrival of @Sakhmet had shifted the earth beneath Kigipigak's feet. His worries remained plentiful yet distant to the featherlight feeling that the girl brought out of him.

The snow was no longer a hindrance but a play-thing once again; the billowing coastal wind was sharp and chilling yet he was warmed by the mere sight of her alongside him; together they went, spending long periods of time entertained by wheeling sea birds or the peace of winter's silence, shared together.

By the time they crossed the Totoka's frozen shallows, they'd shared everything they could with one-another. Kigipigak had told her of his hunt across the wilderness, the boy who had seen her roaming (as far as he knew that was the truth), the decision by Moonglow to make winter camps, and of course the illness in the herds of the taiga.

The only pieces he held back were still raw within him: Tulimaq's arrival in the hunter's camp, his challenge to @Shikoba, and Kigipigak's argument with @Kukutux. He did not want to burden her with these things; better to focus on the good fortune they now shared and the potential for a future, which until now, Kigipigak had been afraid to face.

The mountains had come in to view by now. The world was white and silent except the sound of the two of them moving together, laughing, breathing, heart-beating, as if nothing else existed.