Ouroboros Spine anittaima ◬

a nurse.

kuktutux tried to think of what this might be in moonglow. adrastus had explained his own meaning, but the duck wanted a word for it, one that fit into her own mouth. aya; another time. "this is why you are sivullik," she praised the man softly. "i would not have made the words to ask anything of yuelong." 

new to the ways of alliances and bartering over such things. warmth in her gaze as she regarded adrastus, and how his immediate dedication to her own ways had strengthened her own knowledge. her own commitment to what was right for moonglow, not only for moonwoman. 

"before the leaves change their colors and lie upon the ground, i have the want to travel with you to the glacier. it is called moonsong." a pause. "there is a burial place there. he died before the mountain was struck by the star. it was the beginning."