Nutuyikruk had gathered little for the day, finding nothing between many branches and the long stretch of snow. There was only a corpse, frozen into time itself.
She came upon a man with the build of a fox, and like the sight of blood over snow, the girl lingered closer and took time to follow in the cold trenches of a walled trail. There, she got to know his scent before his mind. Polite, and seeking for eyes with a muted voice that carried through snow,
Hello. Had she disturbed his rest?
I don’t believe I have met your face before.
