Ouroboros Spine polar nights

a strong man!

kukutux said nothing of this, only watched with interest, ears listening as tulugak described what she had brought. "i thank you, snow hunter," she said with formal reverence, drawing the ram-skull to herself with wondering arms.

after she had looked at it for a time, she put it gently aside and moved to bring food: chunks of winter-caught fish and juniper berries, along with a strip of dried venison from a dwindling cache of it.

"i made this village with my daughter sialuk after a falling star struck mountain moonspear. it killed many and destroyed much. hunters came to us and slowly moonsong grew. i had known aiolos, but we knew each other again. he became my husband, and the village was full when our first children were born. kausiut and — our daughter who was called to sedna."