north of the north

The snow has stopped, and the moonlight shines on the sea.Freya took a harpoon and aimed at a school of bighead fish swimming over. By the moonlight, she could almost see the spots on the bighead fish in the sea.

It's now!Freya plunged the harpoon sharply.

When she pulled the harpoon up again with the sealskin rope, she also pulled up a bighead fish that kept flicking its tail.

"Hurry up and eat." Freya threw the fish on the sea ice. The fish moved a few times and was soon frozen.

Oak took the fish in silence, and with his hunting knife he slit open its belly.

"Flya, don't waste your efforts in vain, we are dead." Pasha said, his eyes stared straight into the distance, they were surrounded by ice floes, and the land could no longer be seen, the land had already moved away from them .

"Shut up, Pasha." Uta cursed, and he also picked up the harpoon and walked to the edge of the ice. "Damn it, I can't see anything."

Freya threw another fish.

"Come back, Uta," Inuk said. "Frya's eyes are always better than ours."

"It doesn't matter how good your eyes are." Freya shrugged, "The school of fish has already escaped."

Everyone looked at the only two fish in silence. Oak cut the fish into pieces. The flesh of these fish was not enough to fit between the teeth.

"I don't want to die." Oak chewed the fish hard. "Tarrou is only two months old. Without me, who would give him seal meat?"

"Nobody wants to, Oak." Pasha bowed his head, "but we are dead."

"Pasha, I told you to shut up." Uta glared at him.

"I know, I know, you all blame me!" Pasha stood up suddenly, "I was the one who said I was going to hunt seals on the ice floe."

"Pasha..." Freya said.

"Toke...Toke is only 5 years old...I promise him that I will teach him so that he will become a good hunter." Pasha knelt on the ground, "We didn't store food at all this autumn. Everyone will starve to death..."

Freya saw his tears froze on his face and turned into ice scum.

"We won't die, everyone agrees, right?" Freya patted Pasha on the back.

She found that no one answered her words.

"Uta?" Freya looked at Uta, and Uta avoided her eyes.

"Oc?" Freya turned to Orc. "Little Tarrou still needs you."

Oak tightly held the hunting knife in his hand, and after a while he said sullenly, "Will the others...will help me take care of Tarrou?"

Freya sighed and walked back to the ice edge, she found that it only took a while.They drifted for another distance, but fortunately, their ice floe was big enough, and there was no danger of sinking for the time being.Freya took out a hunting knife, cut off a small piece of animal skin with fur from her clothes, and threw it into the sea.The thin animal skin floated on the sea, and was pushed away by the waves all at once.

A large piece of her clothes had been cut, and the cold wind was blowing in, and she didn't know if it would help, the sea looked too big.But it's the only thing she can do.

Maybe, they're driving baby seal boats?Maybe, Dad will come back suddenly?Freya looked in the direction of the land.

"Do you have any regrets?" Uta asked, standing behind Freya, "Old Ram said that if a person dies with regrets, his soul will be restless, and he cannot return to the embrace of the stars."

"No." Anas' black eyes suddenly came to Freya's mind, "No?" she said.

"I should have recognized Anas yesterday." Uta said suddenly.

Freya looked at him in surprise.

"My mother said she is a prairie person, and my mother also said that prairie people are all bad." Uta said, he looked deeply into Freya's eyes, "I don't think Anas is a bad person, but I...I envy her , Freya."

"Jealous of her?" Freya said.

"You like her, Freya, just like Bazhuona likes Qiuya." Uta frowned painfully.

"I..." Freya was speechless.The story of Bazhuona and Qiuya was told by old Ram. Bazhuona is an excellent hunter. She rejected the pursuit of all men, but pursued Qiuya...

Freya shook her head: "If we can't go back, Anas may marry Dada." She suddenly felt that Anas and Dada were very suitable, but when she thought about it, she felt like being photographed by a white bear. Like a palm.

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and they suddenly felt a shock.

"What's going on?" Freya asked.

Uta hurried over to check: "I was hit by a small ice floe!"

Freya heard a series of toothache sounds coming from her feet.

The ice is about to crack!

"Come this way!" Freya shouted, and the ice began to slope down there.

Oak, Pasha, and Inuk ran over, and Uta at the other end was also running this way.Just in the ice between them and Uta, a black chasm was opening like a wide mouth.

"Uta, hurry up." Freya shouted.

Uta ran to the ice crevasse, which had been cracked nearly half a person's height wide.

"Jump, Uta," urged Orc.

Freya saw the look of fear on Uta's face.She suddenly remembered that two years ago, Uta's father, Abush, fell into a crevice of ice and died.At that time, Uta was by his side.

Time passed minute by minute.

As the crack grew, the fear on Uta's face became more and more apparent.

"I like you, Uta, jump up." Freya shouted, as if she liked Oak, Freya quietly added in her heart.

The expression on Uta's face was quickly replaced by joy, he subconsciously jumped high, his figure jumped into the air, and he was rushed into the air by a kind of great joy.

Uta jumped over, with a mixture of surprise and surprise on his face.

Just as he was about to speak, his feet suddenly slipped——

"Uta!" Freya rushed forward and almost lifted Uta up. She had never realized that she was so strong.

After everyone huddled and stood on the small ice floe, Freya felt a burst of fatigue.And this piece of ice, because it can't bear so much weight, is slowly sinking.

She began weakly, "My dad told me that death is part of life."

Everyone looked at her, Pasha, Ok, Inuk, and Uta, and she looked at each of them.Each of them held each other's hands and formed a small circle.

"Let's pray to Wei Ridong." Freya said.They held hands tightly, closed their eyes, and said at the same time: "Weirdong, the king of the gods, and the creator of the world, let us obey your divine will and honor everything that happens. I have nothing I came into this world knowingly, and I will leave knowingly, offering my knowledge, experience and memory. Please return my pure soul to the embrace of the stars..."

……

Chang Wuyong picked up a small piece of animal skin. She wiped her left hand dry and felt it, only to find that the topmost hair on the animal skin was still dry.

"Soon." Chang Wuyou thought.

"Did you hear any sound?" Chang Wuyong seemed to hear something in the distance.

A loud chirp answered her.

"Good boy." She patted the other person's head, "Let's go there quickly."

……

"Can we return to the embrace of the stars when we are drowned in the sea?" asked Oak.

"As long as we pray sincerely," Freya said, watching the water getting closer to her.

Silence fell upon everyone, the moonlight shone bleakly on them, and the sound of the waves sounded thrilling.

Do you have anything to regret, Freya suddenly remembered this sentence.She couldn't help thinking that Anas was held in her arms at night, and the fragrance on his body smelled so good, it seemed that it had been a very long time ago.

I have, she thought.

"Anas..." she heard Oak murmur.

Yes, Anas is so beautiful, Freya thought.

"Anas!" cried Orc.

what

Freya looked up, she saw Anas floating in the sea, no!She is riding on something.

It was a giant white fish. Freya had never seen such a cute fish. Their foreheads were raised high, and they looked naive.

And Anas...

The sea breeze blows her long hair, and the moonlight generously outlines her outline, her high nose bridge and eyes.

Freya stared blankly at Anas.

She is as beautiful as a sea god.