Ouroboros Spine mauya ⤞

a thought came to her.

the air was bitter with ice. the hairs of her pelt gathered a glittering. 

she piled dried deer meat into strips of birchbark and called for @Kivaluk and @Nasamik, who she had allowed to stay close if she did not seek her own shelter.

"i greet you, kingullimik," she said when the young hunter had come. "i greet you, nasamik," she said, speaking the new one's name aloud for her nephew's ears, and her relative's high title for the same reason.

kukutux handed them each a bundle of meat. "nasamik has the want to find her own ulaq. go with her, kivaluk. in the night i heard wolverine brother, high on the mountain."

moonwoman kept her voice a conversation. but her mind worked quietly as she waited for them to speak and to set off.