Moonsong Glacier avilaitkan (m)

Now was the first time Kaluktuk could discern how young and inexperienced Ariadne was with the world; she did not know better than what she had been taught, and what she had been taught was limited from his point of view. If she had been born to one of the Tartok warbands in the north, she would have a strength of will rivaled only by the land around her; she would be keen to seek out more lands for herself, or more suitors, and desire strength above all. Instead she was born to the sunshine-people whose only goal was to mollify Kukutux' own ego and spread their backwards traditions.

Kaluktuk thought he could fix this. He thought maybe time would help the two of them meet in the middle, or if he continued with Ariadne he could convince her to shed some of her mother's limitations. He only smiled to her now, holding her close. There is much! When you are able, we should go on a trip in to the north. Maybe when the land is warm again, when it is not so dangerous — the land of ice and snow can be a frightening place when winter takes hold. He did not want to scare her from the idea, only warn. Besides, for now Ariadne was injured and in the spring, perhaps too fat.

I have been many places as a trader. There are places where a village does not stay in one place, but migrates with the flow of the ice! The women do not care to make furs or burrows, they find shelter in the snow itself and keep warm with whomever catches their eye. Kaluktuk told the story of these people with a tone of fondness, for it was a story of his own people; but then he moved on, talking of many hours of endless night when the sun would flee for months, and being led to hunt by the greenlight that danced between stars.

One day we will see it. I will show you!