Redsand Canyon then I heard your heart beating

just as he had in the womb, siku found himself outmatched.

his brother the first to arrive, the first to feast, the first to be seen.

siku was merely an addition in his wake. a closing act to the main show.

an eerie silence settled over him as he feasted alongside brother. the warmth of mother familiar in every way and yet strangely new all the same. there were others too, but he was too young to have perception of them.

all he knew was the smell of milk and herbs.

both of it enough for him to eventually fall into a slumber.