Sunset Valley tautuk ∧

they worked as one, the hunters of moonglow.

kukutux shifted fluidly so that shikoba might take her space. inutsuk grabbed for the snout of the animal. moonwoman fell back, sinking her teeth into the back of its leg and shaking her head to and fro. 

blood drumming, blood hunting.

women did not hunt this way in her home. and yet here in these wilds, here in her village, all were free. blood rushed into her mouth. she set her haunches, dragged along by the caribou as its wounds became many.