Ouroboros Spine The time I knew what happiness was

"and she still has desire," kukutux quipped back, stung by the insinuation that she wished him no longer. but then again he had not come to her. she had not asked for him. let the two speak plainly now; the duck sorted through the sourness clinging to the end of his words. 

can we exist in a world, where we can both have what we want?

adrastus had said this thing to her, before kukutux had explained at length the ways of her people and the many ways in which their situation might be made clear. she wanted now to say this to raimo; she felt his insult and beneath her own reared a half-formed fear, that the shadow might fade from moonglow and thus from her.

the duck looked to the heavens now, seeking solace in the nightfall pour with its glittering lights.