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eldritch materialized.

kuktutux, who had made the plan of traveling more swiftly to the last place she had met the woman, was graced with a sense of respect and regard for the shadow. 

"spirit-talker. i come to make first trade with you and with ivory rose." here she nosed the strip of silken, cured leather, and the deer-meat she had dried atop her ulaq. "many moons ago the brother of the man who was my husband died. he was very angry, i think. his blood was upon me before he left this world. before he was no more, he told me he had children, within a valley. he was outcast by our clan. they have not known their people."

"but i see that a boy has come to my village, and has left it. he is large and like stone, as the brother was. yet he has a curse on him, and he follows a tupilak that has taken the color of a fox. he has stolen from me." the words, tumbling.

a breath.

"i want to know if he is of my clan, ostrega. if i tell into your ear the name that the brother had when he lived, do you think that you will have the words to make a path, to find his spirit? and to ask him."