Ouroboros Spine kiptaitchuk ⩷

kukutux looked carefully at kausiut. her day-star did not seem to know that she had been born without all of herself.

a hiccuping, strong. it shook the child's entire body.

kukutux returned at once to nose at kausiut with gentle encouragement. her daughter breathed. she had a soul that wished to live. "and she has love of her father, even if her mother holds fears." 

the duck refused to be afraid. "i will teach to you all the medicine and teas. sialuk will show to you the tongue of animals. sun man will make you see how to be devoted."

she considered. "i think you must learn to be spirit-talker, kausiut. then no one will decide your place for you in your husband's clan." for her daughters would marry, and make good matches. all of them. kausiut would be denied nothing. she was the child of sun and moon. 

"this your grandmother told to me. she was a woman with much wisdom."