Long Stretch

The Long Stretch is a region in the North Pole, west of Agna Qel'a, that belongs to the Northern Water Tribe.
== History ==
Long Stretch was the original residency of Ujurak and Tapeesa, and their sons Kalyaan and Kavik.
When Kavik was eight, Kalyaan and his younger brother got separated from the rest of the family during a hunt. They trudged in the direction they believed was home until the snowdrifts became overwhelming. Kalyaan built a shelter where they sent the first of many nights shivering and hungry. The storm only abated in spates and they wandered in blankness. Kalyaan had to cut strips from his own mitten and chew them to make it soft enough for Kavik to swallow, a desperation tactic so his younger brother would have the energy to walk in the cold.
After nearly a month, they returned to camp with Kavik drooped around Kalyaan's shoulders. Kalyaan lost two fingers to frostbite from where he had opened his mitten.
Normally, the Long Stretch was a land rich with access to fishing grounds and roaming herds but after an extended period of bad hunting seasons and poor catches led various residents to seek other options. Encouraged by distant relations who had already crossed the straits, many came to the shang city of Bin-Er to ride out the hard times, like Kavik's family.
So many people from this region traveled to Bin-Er that former hunting partners back in the Long Stretch were now neighbors that worked together in Nuqingaq and Partners, an all-Water Tribe shop.
== Notable figures ==
* Kalyaan
* Kavik
* Tapeesa
* Ujurak
== References ==
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