Ouroboros Spine in which death has claimed as mine

kivaluk does not retiterate her statement with an answer for he felt that her statement about him being up early was meant as a rhetorical one. they do. replies kivaluk to her question, however, acknowledging that probably many his age could not be bothered to be drug from their den until at least noon. as it was, kivaluk does not like being idle and at that wouldn't call himself a normal nearly yearling.

my father spoke of you, kivaluk says. actually said i was supposed to seek you out for training. his tone turns sheepish when it is drawn, blatantly, that he has yet to do such. i am kivaluk. he offers his name in return. it wasn't his whole family, and he feels akkuma's absence keenly again.