Ouroboros Spine Tell Me What I Don't Know

a woman he would not have. and yet he was to be father. kukutux did not understand such an arrangement, though in all places it seemed that children remained beneath the honor of their mothers. this one, a leader. and njord, caught between the new life that would come to his hearth, and this ebbing love for a one who had come before.

quietly she pondered this, and when she opened her mouth again, moonwoman spoke carefully, but with a plainness she did not mean to distance from. "we have many paths to take, but cannot know the end of them all. if it is love you want, njord, then it will come to know you. but maybe it cannot be known until you learn what it means to be father, first."

such things could perhaps be related, but she was no spirit-talker.

"you keep the song of your people, taught to you by your father. think of this."