Moonspear rich folks laugh while the furnace burns

Caelum listened half-heartedly to the story that Kukutux told them about snow. His mind was still with mother thunder, and the way that she roared and grumbled in the skies when she came around. Half of the story about milik was listened to and saved in his head, but half of it was lost through thoughts of his crush on mother lightning. Even Haoming's beauty did not compare to hers; she was Caelum's original love and he wondered if he would ever meet her truly up close.

The stories were beautiful each in their own way (though of course, Caelum selfishly favoured the one of mother thunder). Altair seemed interested to connect the dots of the story about milik to the real world, but Caelum was still stuck with the former story. He asked, Are there more stories of mother thunder? Might he been more apt at social skills, Caelum might have thanked his aunt for the stories, but it did not even occur to him to do so.