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This is great!

I mean, the icons could be better, but I get it. Limited resources.

Do you know how terrific it would be to finally get down from that mountain? After 26,000 years? And you've even got a couple of friends lined up for me. A shapeshifter? The Sun?!

Oh, I'm not worried about what will happen if you bring me down from the sky. People don't need the North Star anymore. They've got compasses now. Besides, I'm pretty sure the polestar changes every 25,770 years. So...um. [North Star started her second cycle in 1470. 24,300 years to go.] ...It's not like you guys have long to wait.

Seriously! So cool!

Maybe there will be mountains to climb at this new place, too...

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...I need the North Star.

Well, here she is!

I mean I need you in the sky.

Stay in the sky.

Oh, right...

You're the shapeshifter girl. You need my help. Mun said you would.

...What if I just went with you on your journey?

[ ...Ayas has to think about this for a second. ]

Are you as good with directions on land as you are in the sky?

Oh, sure! All these years, I've had nothing to do with myself except stare at the faces of the spinning planet. I think I know one face from the other.

[ Well, sounds promising enough. ]

You can come.

If Grandmother Fox consents.

...If we can actually get you out of the sky.

Heh, yeah. Mun hasn't figured out that part yet...

But having friends would be nice. I've been alone for all these years. It gets lonely.

...Lonely.

[ She's been feeling the same way. Because, honestly, Grandmother Fox is nice and all, but... It's not home. ]

Shapeshifter girl? Are you lonely, too?

It doesn't matter.

If you say so. I think it does, but...

Are you any good at fighting? What will you do when the Windigo come after us?

...What's a Windigo?

[ show your ignorance why don't you. SIGH ]

A man. A man becomes Windigo when his soul is corrupt with avarice.

They look like gray bears with the heads of lions and the tails of vipers.

They eat human beings.

Star Daughter, I think it would be best if you stayed away from mountains from now on.

But they're so much fun...

[26,000 years on a mountaintop have taught her nothing.]

Is it fun to be stuck alone at the top of one? Come now. Your experiences have taught you better.

But if I had you to rescue me...

I can't look after you all the time. Won't you exercise some caution?

I'll try. I'm just so excited to be free!

Of course you are. One can hardly fault you your enthusiasm.

Together we'll go many places.

Even the Sun's coming down from the sky?

[ holy crackers how is she supposed to get anything done if the stars won't stay put and the planet is flying off its axis ]

I can be in two places at once, dear.

I will not fail you. You are as much my daughter as any Cree ever was.

[ Well, Ayas could really use a mother right now...but she won't admit that. ]

I don't know how I'm going to stop him otherwise.

Your father is a wicked and powerful man. But you have learned crafts he can only dream of. It's the goodness of your heart that keeps the Windigo at bay.

Something to take solace in.

I know better than to argue with the Sun.

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