Ouroboros Spine tatamnaktuk ⨸

Keyni came, tugged by Kukutux's voice. Filled with the strains of labor. She tossed her head back and added her own voice, signaling she was on the way. For a while now, she sensed in the air that the Moon Woman was due soon. It was like a thick tension, ready to burst. But this was early.

When she arrived, slipping into the circle of women outside her kin's ulaq, her demeanor was calm. Alert but un-panicked. The tundrian seemed resolved with how things had turned out. With the timing. There was only so much medicine and herbs could do. No force was greater than that of nature. She touched all, even the bodies of the living. And she had decided that while early, it was time.

Keyni lowered her head slightly, eyes fluttering shut in peaceful acceptance and understanding.