Ouroboros Spine mother

chakliux' smile broadened. "i walked in the snow until i could walk no longer." he hoped she would be impressed by how he had slipped into the words of her mother, not his own seal-hunter words. the northern people had many dialects and he knew several.
"i told oil father that if he sent me to a rich land with beautiful women, i would give him a year of liver meat." he laughed. "and he sent me here!" chakliux felt his pride grow under the way she had carefully traced her scars with his eyes.