Wheeling Gull Isle tiritchik ⌮

meerkat struggled.

she had been given many blows; kukutux allowed their world to narrow until it was just she and the stricken girl. "iksriktaayuuk, i will be well here in yuelong. it is good that you have come here. you may not know what she meant to do, but you know that she was here. your path is true."

she turned back to the quiet man and to aiolos. how weary the scene now, and her mother's heart wanting only to take meerkat home to moonglow.

but the girl would go to the sea-wolves. and kukutux would remain here.