Ocean's Breath Plateau kavrak ∷

seal stalker.
the son of an uncle's second wife, one who had lived three villages away. they knew his name only in song, only in lineage.
shock and dread raced through chakliux, who had no words as he watched the old woman go.
how had she known? had she known?
seal stalker. if she had married into his people, her daughters would be as cousins to him. did the blood know? did the blood remember?
he thought of ariadne, he thought of her beautiful face and the wash of her scent.
why did kilgitsuk deserve what he himself had earned? did her sunshine blood know what had been broken between her people and the seal hunters? was that what he had sought in moon woman's daughters?
the lichen was clenched, carried.
he would remain with his thoughts the remainder of the day.