Ouroboros Spine nature of life on earth

A flurry of questions, but not unwarranted, came from Meerkat.

Anaa will recover. I was not on the mountain, but she was, when it happened. It is just us now, but we have called again and again for others and—her voice hitched in her throat. Sialuk did not believe any of them lived until she had seen them with her own eyes, and even those she saw, she half-believed to be spirits not yet gone to the island of the dancing lights.

You are the only other I have seen from the spear or glen. The spirits look kindly on you. And on the others? Sialuk did not know. What had they done to deserve such a fate?