Ouroboros Spine Olwen

Kausuit was so involved with her work, she did not take note of the raindrop's question. This was not an offense, as Sialuk knew what it was to be in deep concentration. She felt it when she worked with the bones, and she felt it when she communed with the spear itself.

When the younger woman—no longer a girl!—looked up, Sialuk smiled, wagging her own tail in kind. Anaa told me you had returned. Is this a thing you learned with the walrus hunters? she asked, gesturing to the marks in the snow.