Ouroboros Spine lifeline

she speaks to the ones who you cannot see

she speaks to those beyond

kukutux searched for kausiut in the snow. she called out to her daughter. but she knew that there would not be an answer.

piksiksuk.

moonwoman swung in desperate circles.

kausiut was not so distant from the village.

the dancing lights grew tall and at last in their glow, she discovered her daytime star, pierced through with a horrible cold with her gaze unmoving upon the place of the spirits.

all that kukutux had ever believed of kausiut was known in that moment. that she was not in their present. that she had been touched not by the creeping monster of birth but by the old ones. and third, now, as she wrapped herself around the girl, third: that the gods had seen the loss of her son and made a way for her daughter to speak.

"sacred child," she sobbed out, seeking to warm and soften kausuit's too-cold frame. "please do not leave this face that i love."