Moonspear kinigaa ∫

"it is," and here she paused, considering, taking three more leaves from their stalks as she thought. "after snow comes, the cough that arrives in the chest of babies. and the old ones," the healer explained slowly. "to chew this leaf, or drink it in water, it helps to move the coughing away."

with hope that her explanation would be clear to keres, a smile alighted upon the duck's mouth. "yes. they are firstborn." sialuk first, kukutux recalled, though in her world they had breathed air together and were thus equal in birth. "i am wife to jarilo." she was careful not to assign their parentage to the man himself, for that might anger a listening spirit. children belonged to their mothers. the man closest to her might own the soul she swallowed, the one that split into her children, but the duck could not be sure.