Ouroboros Spine kakitlannak ⧎

"Can it really be Inutsuk?"

The query pained him. For his wife to be left unsure of his true presence was no enjoyable thing to endure.

It is.

Then Kukutux spoke. 

"Why have you come back to this village?"

Was it not obvious? What reason could he possibly not have for returning?

Then again, he was the fool that left.

Lifting his chin as high as he could bear, Inutsuk did his best to sound and appear confident with his answer. I have returned for Shikoba, the only woman I have ever and will ever love. For Mojag, a beautiful son given to us by the graces of the spirits. For my family, Moonglow. And for you, Kukutux... a woman who gave me life again when I feared all was lost.

Though now waiting for moonwoman to decide his truth, Inutsuk could not help but glue his eyes upon Shikoba. He'd seen her face so many times in his dreams, having never forgotten it. But now, to see it here... it mesmerized him, just as it had the day he chose to court her. He was falling in love all over again.