Ouroboros Spine ted

They were gone. She was convinced of it. Anybody who had been on Moonspear when it had fallen was no more. Her whole life. Her whole family. Her whole everything was gone. Sixsix was the only remaining part of her that had survived. She thought of the dancing lights. Of her mother, father, brother, aunts, and uncles there.

She couldn’t breathe.

White movement on white snow, and all at once, there was hope.

Anaa.

Sialuk forced her feet to move, and Sixsix clutched to her shoulder blade, perched there and weary. Wordlessly, weary, she found her way to her mother’s side.

She would not speak of the dead. Was this anaa or only her spirit. Sialuk could not say, but she wished only for the comfort of the woman who had carried her for two moons and all the moons since she had come into this world. She pressed herself against the pale fur of her mother.