Moonspear alianiilik ≡

she wished so greatly to tell jarilo now, to beg that he remove from her the great burden of feeling. and yet he could not do such for her; kukutux quailed in the weakness of the moment, and she could only nod. let her be gathered at her home with her husband and her children. the details of it all could be given when her tongue did not want only to scream that the tortured trader come back, come back from the dancing lights to live again.

"it will be a good thing, if you tell him to come there, jarilo." all was not well, and so she could not claim it to be so; she shook her head in silent answer to his first inquiry but began to shakily gather herself from the water, leaning upon him. "i longed for you when i was away," she said to her mate, to her child, before casting a glance toward keres. "she was warrior, watched over me when i — before i came back to moonspear."

your brother is dead, her mouth begged to say, but she only stifled it with a strangled sob and began to step out of the icy stream and its tempting qualities of numbness.