Ouroboros Spine x-ing a paragrab

blood, rushing her mouth;

it felt as if she might drown;

kukutux felt it drip between her clenched teeth, from the thick notch of tongue taken in sacrifice from the tupilak.

she pulled away from the fighters at once and spat it upon the ground. snowdrift ears flickering as she searched for nuak in the guttering hard knife he presented now. 

but he had changed; she saw; she felt she must see — in him, the grey brother's ire.

perhaps, sickeningly, the fox-girl was only a girl and it was the stamp of the dead ostrega man who had made nuak as he was.

the rest, to sivullik. kukutux faced the boy and was silent.