‘My house is your house,’ said Kotuko; ‘but I think that we shall both go to Sedna together.’

Now Sedna is the Mistress of the Underworld, and the Inuit believe that every one who dies must spend a year in her horrible country before going to Quadliparmiut, the Happy Place, where it never freezes and the fat reindeer trot up when you call. _

The Second Jungle Book
Quiquern
Rudyard Kipling