Moonspear agnaurak ✢

the stars were clearer tonight.

kukutux lay atop the earthen curve of her ulaq, muzzle lifted toward the heavens. her cache had been finished, and in it she had placed the three frozen trout caught earlier that day.

the daylight hours had also awarded the budding little huntress the winter pelt of an ermine, which she wore slung around her narrow shoulders. the starlight filled her jadestone gaze and for a moment, kukutux knew she heard the voice of the seal hunter whisper to her.

a blink, and his voice was gone, but in its wake that same odd prickle of maddening sensation which tightened her muscles for something she could not understand. yet all the same, the horizon of it was fast approaching. she thought of that day upon the borders, of fierce hydra, stoic arcturus, careful @Jarilo, and here kukutux lingered.

for now, the duck pulled her gaze from the winterdark sky and gazed pensively into the shadowed forest surrounding her little encampment.