Ouroboros Spine siglikiraktuk ⦅

kukutux gave him a motherly look.

"the long hunt is when a young man goes out to seek a kill. he stops where his heart tells him and he makes his offering. and then he takes into himself a spirit-plant, and there he seeks the spirits, to come to him. to tell him what his heart knows but he does not. to shape him and to guide him."

"when he comes home, he is a man."

she studied her son as she spoke, this son of hearth not body and yet loved in the same way.