Qeya River tarqiup inua

A rumble, subterranean, beneath him. Like the mightiest of earthquakes, but no catastrophe was this. . .warm. He leaned into the vibrations, letting the echo of them ripple across his cheek. They continued to hum inside his brain, even as they subsided in the flesh.

Uumakŋa aggiqsutin. Stardust, coalesced into flesh and blood and bone. Within her a spirit, and before he knew her, he knew her. 

Knew her.

Malrok slid, slowly, and began to root for a nipple. He latched and suckled, but with no great ferocity, content to let the primal victuals pass over his tongue and into his core.

Uumakŋa aggiqsutin.

Puuyuqqaŋaa.