Stavanger Bay tuniksimaruk ⦒

the young woman did speak.

but it was not in a tongue that kukutux understood.

yet she heard in it the sound of trees and running water; she thought at once of shikoba and the words that the star hunter had taught to her.

moonwoman raised her paw, touching it to her chest. "kukutux." she pointed now toward the girl-woman, asking with eyes and smiling mouth for an answering name-sound.