Moonspear makaik ⧎

no words came to her.

she watched raimo leave for the last time, fading into the blackness cast by the peak she had once loved, where she had once loved. the place her children had taken their first breaths and she had found a sister in the dark bear and the sleek ostrega clan. pulled down now, pulled down into a thousand crushing rocks.

and raimo — breath hitched in her throat and kukutux pushed herself upright.

i will not forget! she told herself in a harsh furor, and what remained of raimo's earshot would catch the end of her moonsong, sung upright and firm above the windswept trees.