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He laughed! It poured out of him before he could stop himself, before the ice in his heart could rise through his chest and to his throat! It was a warm and deep sound the likes of which he carried as a boy, before all of his troubles. He laughed, and he ran, and he jousted with his friend the seal hunter as if he did indeed have the capacity to turn back time.

Kilgitsuk tried to dodge and then lunge, smacking the ground as much as he rough-housed with Chakliux. When he was finally out of breath and the two were done with their childishness, he became more serious, but still lighter than he had been.

Ahh, it has been a long time since I have been with men. He did not mean it as an innuendo, and yet it came flowing from him that way, and he laughed again, shaking his head. I had once hoped to — oh, there, that familiar pain; accidentally delving in to his emotions now, which was not something appropriate between them. He cut down his own words. Hmn, nevermind.

So, seals. You really think they are here?