Moonsong Glacier aatkatik [m]

Kilgitsuk did his best to contain how he felt. It was his lot in life to avoid expression, or so he had been taught as a man, and he was very good at it. While they continued to speak between themselves, he took the hide and carefully placed it elsewhere within the ulaq so that it could be laid out for viewing, and was busy with that as the women had their moment.

He looked up briefly to the sight of white and red embraced, and quickly averted his eyes as if he had seen something intimate that was not for his eyes. His mind was buzzing, but he held his tongue and kept his distance as much as he could.